Word: perrine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOWDLER'S LEGACY: A HISTORY OF EXPURGATED BOOKS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA by Noel Perrin. 296 pages. Atheneum...
What could prompt an educated man to change Lady Macbeth's most famous line to "Out, crimson spot"? Or to excise mention of Queequeg's underwear from Moby Dick? In framing answers, Noel Perrin, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes as his point of departure Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who had a passion for chess and prison reform and an aversion to London smog, sick people, and all writing that, as he put it, "can raise a blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation...
Young Girls of Rochefort -- Jacques (Lola, Umbrellas of Cherbourg) Demy's fabulous Cinemascope musical with a great Michel Legland score and the cast of the year: Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac pursued by Gene Kelly (looking a young 35) and Jacques Perrin, while Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darieux watch from the wings. The color photography radiates day-light and Demy steadfastly resists all but the joyful aspects of romance
Studying cash salaries and bonuses paid in Britain and five of the Common Market nations, the U.S. management-consultant firm of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby found that, over the past eight years, British executives have slipped from fifth to last place in the pay scale. French and Italian executives now rank at the top, ahead of Germans (who were No. 1 in 1960), Belgians and the Dutch, who happily yielded the cellar to the British...
...West Side Story alumni, George Chakiris and Grover Dale, handle the hard-core dancing and occasional lechery with efficiency, and Jacques Perrin is as fine a romantic innocent as one could hope to see in an age of sophisticated film-making. Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darrieux, two of France's greatest screen stars, walk through their parts with characteristic skill, and Darieux, unlike the rest of the cast, does her own singing. Gene Kelly, his face frozen in its 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer grin, is wonderfully, incredibly, exciting to watch in action. Deneuve and Dorleac as twins ("toutes deux demoiselles...