Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Buňuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
...most hopeless chores. Thus in Caracas last summer, a clever cop arrested a topless-bathing-suit wearer simply for not carrying identification papers. But in Cannes, another cop could think of no such evasive tactic when he spotted Claudine Durand, 21, on the beach. Barebreasted, the pretty Parisian gym teacher was playing pingpong before fascinated spectators...
...second week of spring and summer showings, Parisian haute couture managed to sashay back to the hip-flask era, blast off into far-outer space, and keep fashion pundits' necks swiveling as if they were covering an inter-aeon Davis Cup match...
Molyneux is a curious hybrid. An Englishman whose line is Arc de Triomphe, never Marble Arch, he is the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no less "absolutely vulgar" today than in 1928, when he first said so. The new Molyneux collection was unabashedly oldfashioned, and it drew both snippish sniffs ("Typically British," deplored the London Daily Telegraph) and soulful sighs ("The style and taste are still there," cooed the Daily Mail...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...