Word: poufs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French, they run a funny race. Give them somebody else's genre-Hitchcock suspense, slapstick à la Sennett-and they can dominate the field. But ask them to run on their own course-amour, with plenty of gallic-and, pouf!, they fall apart...
Then Virginia patted her Clairoled pouf, pinned on a diamond as big as a blintz, and walked out to plant her guests around the living-room-style set. As soon as the four of them had adjusted their on-screen smiles, the TV tape machines began to roll. "Hi everyone," chirped Virginia, "and welcome to Girl Talk...
...Pouf of Smoke. Normal dramatic tools like characterization and motivation are given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that...
They perk. Take the opera: usually, three evenings are required for the performance of one work; Dr. Ox sprays the hall with his secret ingredient, and pouf! The joint goes wild. Frenzied musicians bust their instruments, and the audience whips into a wild free-for-all. In the gardens, shrubs become trees, cabbages become bushes, mushrooms become umbrellas. Kids take to throw ing things at the teachers, townspeople eat and drink as never before, a couple gets married after only two months of courtship, two people fight a duel...
...Five-Day Lover (Kingsley International), for about an hour and a half, is the year's funniest movie, a pouf of glittering froth from France. And then, as though the camera were slowly drawing back, the context of the comedy widens and the laughter dies in the spectator's belly as he perceives that the froth is bubbling from the lips of a corpse, from the sores of a rotting civilization. The effect is disturbing and profound. In his third feature film Director Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, The Joker) emerges as a narrow but brilliant comic...