Word: murmurous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murmur of the Heart is a comedy about the French bourgeoisie by the eclectic Louis Malle, light but not a triviality. The after-effects include at least fifteen minutes of one of those cartoon grins, like that on the mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure silly bliss. This is an okay emotion to have visited upon you, and this is a picture not to be missed. Playing at the Brattle with Stolen Kisses until Tuesday. The second show on the bill is a Truffaut tale about young Antoine Doinel; it's more incisively funny than...
When a worker falls ill or is injured, many large employers pay disability benefits without a murmur. The pregnant employee, however, generally gets no money for time taken as maternity leave. In a potentially far-reaching decision, Federal Judge Robert Merhige has found General Electric Co. guilty of sex discrimination in denying such benefits to pregnant workers. Ruling on a suit filed in 1972 by GE women, the judge dismissed the company's argument that pregnancy is incurred "voluntarily." Said he: "This standard is not applied in informal sports injuries, most of which could also be avoided by appropriate...
...among their key sources was a man whom the authors still tantalizingly refuse to name. They called him "Deep Throat," and report only that he was a preWatergate friend of Woodward's, a trusted and experienced Executive Branch official with "extremely sensitive" antennae that seemed to pick up every murmur of fresh conspiracy at the capital's power center...
...hasn't been back since. Minor legends have grown up about it, and many people say it is Louis Malle's finest film. Harvard Square didn't get its print in time for advance screening, so I haven't seen it, but Malle's other films, such as Murmur of the Heart and Phantom India, are so outstanding that this study of a former alcoholic contemplating suicide should be well worth seeing. Bernardo Bertolucci's Partner, featured on the same bill, is another old film being shown here for the first time. It was shown once...
...Harvard Square are two of the finest examples of a great genre--the French domestic comedy of the middle class: Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart are Claude Berri's Le Sex Shop. Both are the kind of whimsy that'll have you grinning idiotically when you leave, and Malle's, about an incestual mother/son relationship, has great sensitivity as well...