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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling sets her trembling; she offers intimations of grand passions, great dreams and intense drama. Ever since she was a schoolgirl in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers, people have wanted to make her a star. At 17 she was made one of the youngest members in France's oldest acting ensemble, the Comédie Française. In her first season, she played Agnes in The School for Wives. When Jean-Loup Dabadie, one of France's leading screenwriters (Cesar and Rosalie) saw her in 1973, he wrote a comedy of the generation gap, La Gifle...
...enjoyment of both parties." Besides, Judge Ronald Hachey suggested unchivalrously, the woman's favors may not have been worth all that much. "Unfortunately," he said, "there was no testimony to help the court with respect to the going rate charged by those engaged in one of the oldest professions known to mankind." Hachey went on to note that by appearing in court in overalls and a man's shirt, the divorcee "made little or no effort to convince the court of the value of her personal services." Her clothing, he complained, "covered her to such an extent that...
...Belle Reve of training camps: a Southern plantation transplanted to the shores of the river Thames. And for 45 years or so Harvard crews have journeyed on down to New London just after final exams to relax and prepare for the oldest intercollegiate event in the country, the Harvard-Yale race...
Unaffected by the anguish of the recent past, they are waving off hard drugs and hard political lines in favor of good-time music and that oldest of adolescent verities: fun. Gone are the trademarks of yesteryear: denim fatigues, dove-crowned peace flags, bottles of Ripple wine. In their place can be found pastel tennis shoes, American flags and Tab. Many fans come in halter tops for a suntan and to be part of the carnival scene. They just want to dance boogie and sing along. Says Chicago Lyricist Robert Lamm, 30: "These days nobody wants to hear songs that...
...patient is sitting up and taking umbrage. After several dolorous books, Richard Condon, no black humorist but an eyeball-red one in the great, ranting days of The Manchurian Candidate and The Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until...