Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman (well played by Jacques Serres and Brigitte Fossey) fall in love, but refuse to marry or even move in together for fear that surrender of independence will distort their personalities and spoil the pleasant relationship they already enjoy. All over the lovely corner of Provence that they share with the native-born peasantry and Parisians escaping city life, similar failures of connection are taking place. A man on the verge of old age makes a fool of himself by pursuing a sometime trapeze artist who slept with him once, but now rejects him with comical callousness. It seems that...
...gives us so many walks with beautiful girls in clothes that look like they're going to swish off against the beautiful scenery. At least John Barry's score has an attractive lilt, and the "Love Theme From The Betsy," if that's what it's called, is quite pleasant for this sort of piece, not at all grating like The Great Gatsby's music...
...this world who make a living out of stereotypes and labels. Many of us feel more secure about things when we can hang labels on them--preppie, jock, pre-med and so on. Many people pooh-pooh musicals by dubbing them escapist" and "silly." But Pippin, while providing a pleasant diversion from blizzards and bombastic politicos, stands out from cliched musicals with its own resilience. Much more than a fantasy, Pippin deals with a very central and poignant dilemma in our lives--our existence, and what the hell to do with...
...federal or state governments or the 14 large land owners involved do not agree to the various options presented Wednesday, Francis J. Nicholas, governor of the Passamoquoddy Indian tribe at Pleasant Point, Maine, said the Indians will be going to court...
...most interesting chapters, naturally enough, involves the Kennedys, and it will not be pleasant reading for their hagiographers. In the early '60s, the Justice Department, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, began investigating an old family friend, Publicist Igor Cassini, for his supposed failure to register as a foreign agent. Cassini, who wrote a gossip column for the Hearst papers under the name Cholly Knickerbocker, was suspected of illegally representing the Dominican Republic and Dictator Rafael Trujillo in the U.S. Perhaps because of his family's friendship with Cassini, Bobby Kennedy pursued him with extraordinary ferocity, afraid that...