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...Louisiana State: a 13-10 squeaker over Syracuse, in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, on a 28-yd. field goal by Doug Moreau-his 14th in eleven games, and the fifth time this season that his talented toe has provided L.S.U. with its margin of victory...
...Angels is a flimsy French drama about a pair of roulette addicts. Amidst some properly bleak and disenchanted views of Riviera gaming rooms, Director Jacques Demy earnestly studies the squirmings of compulsive gamblers, one of whom, grace a Dieu, is Jeanne Moreau...
...shambling plot follows a callow Parisian bank clerk (Claude Mann) who gets high on beginner's luck and decides to court Dame Fortune at the Cannes Casino. Unfortunately, he meets another dame. Moreau appears, a battered divorcee who has already sacrificed her marriage, her child, and her jewels to the corruptive religion of chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again...
...before the film whirs to a muddled flat-broke finish, Actress Moreau forcefully demonstrates the verve, style and flamboyant femaleness that make her the envy of European sex symbols much greener in years and cooler in blood. Her wicked, winning presence has saved many a bad movie from utter oblivion, and at 36 she knows how to turn Bay of the Angels into a one-woman show. Puffy, painted, clacking along on spike heels, bouncy blonde curls screaming Miami bleach, she seems to have been blackjacked by destiny in a thousand side-street hotels. If she loses her train fare...
...read in Esquire a couple of months ago. Remember that the article involved taking lists of names, such as "Dwight Eisenhower, Bat Man and Jackson Pollack," and putting them under headings like "Old Sentimentalists," and then taking other lists of names, such as "Bobby Kennedy, Wonder Woman and Jeanne Moreau," and putting them under headings like "New Sentimentalists," and then printing them neatly with lots of white space all around. Second, imagine how this article would have been if it had been about Extremism. Third, write the book, which is 32 pages long. Fourth, read the book...