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...South Carolina," the Senator answered. In her first dispatch, the Parisian expatriate, who once did a stint as theater critic for the Partisan Review, found some highly theatrical touches in "the rather shabby" marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room. She might even do a book on Watergate...
...fact, the radical superstars of the 1960s are passé, along with their Marxist models: Castro, Che and increasingly, Mao Tse-tung. The new radicals, says Parisian Journalist Robert Pledge, who was a student activist in 1968, "have abandoned the idea of the political hero." Instead, they are promoting a more pragmatic, down-to-earth "Marxism with a human face...
THERE IS MORE than a little of Sartre in Godard -- a quirky French naughtiness, a hatred of the conventional above all. You may remember that Parisian farce of a year or so ago, when Sartre decided to have himself arrested. Well aware of the implications of such an act, the government kept hands off, and while demonstrators all around were hauled off to jail, Sartre went untouched. Much frustrated over a period of months, his comments and conduct became progressively more outrageous, until arrest was unavoidable, and a self-satisfied Sartre was dragged off to martyrdom...
...characters' lives are composed of sensationalistic incidents, and the motives for the way they live are never developed or explained. At film's beginning, Paul, the American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing more than a volatile brat with a voluptuous body. As their sexual partnership, founded on a chance encounter in a vacant apartment, begins to turn to love, even the emotional tension becomes attenuated -- the only question, will the girl accept Paul's cynical attitudes towards...
...meal of that kind, Bocuse charges between $18 and $25, excluding the cost of wine, or about two-thirds the price of a three-star Parisian restaurant. He also maintains a staff of 48 and habitually loses money on the operation. Bocuse stays prosperous by lending his name to a line of wines exported to the U.S. and by running an annex, the Abbaye, that he calls his "laughing place." There he can feed 300 at a banquet, and there he enjoys tinkering with a stereo system on which he plays schmalzy love songs and a $10,000 automated organ...