Word: montand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...identified only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would say, 'I never realized how sick you really are' and leave...
...Leningrad State University, Gontarev was known for his imitations of French singer Yves Montand. One night, Gontarev was asked to perform before an audience of administrators and faculty, and it changed his life...
...large portion of the 96 minutes is taken up with complete or spliced performances (Yves Montand sings two full songs). Unexpectedly, most of the music is very upbeat, consisting of everything from fast-paced Russian folk songs to French croonings to Elvis numbers. The almost cheerful nature of these theatrical and dance productions keeps attention high and makes the sequences involving the more mundane daily scenes all the more poignant...
...could absorb one-third of its population growth by way of immigration between 1946 and 1982, its cherished identity seems rather safe. After all, 30 years ago, at the Fifth Republic's outset, the living embodiments of sophisticated Frenchness to much of the world were the film stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -- the former a native Italian from a town near Florence, the latter born in Germany to an Austrian-Polish-Jew ish father. As Cyrano himself might have crowed, in a slightly different context, Vive la difference...