Word: rakishly
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...Aznavour it is the transiency of love that hurts. L'amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes one's eyes...
...casting switch, Sinatra plays a bored, busy advertising brain who has spent 19 years with his own wife (Deborah Kerr). "What a swinger he was in the old days," moons Deborah. Now he bedevils his teen-age daughter (played by Sinatra's own daughter Nancy) and deplores his rakish company vice president (Martin), an aging torn whose bachelor flat is strewn with molted bikinis...
...Continental, "Il Commendatore" had won ten manufacturers' championships in twelve years. It was a fine way to make enemies, among them the Ford Motor Co., which broke into its bulging piggy bank last year to develop a racing sports car of its own: the prototype Ford GT, a rakish, rear-engined coupe with 385 honest horses stuffed into a 40-in.-high package. Bursting with pride, Ford shipped its GTs off to Europe to teach old Enzo a lesson. In four races, not a single GT even managed to cross the finish line...
Soldiers on the Stairs. Recalling her life often brings Moreau to the point of tears, and sometimes she cries. "All the bad ideas I have about marriage, I got from my family," she says. Her father, Anatole, was the rakish owner of a Montmartre restaurant called La Cloche d'Or, popular in the '20s with the show-business crowd. Her mother, an English dancer named Kathleen Buckley, had come to Paris at the age of 17 to dance with the Tiller Girls at the Folies-Bergére. She met Anatole at the restaurant, and they were married...
...LOVE. In naughty Stockholm, a lively young widow (Harriet Andersson) sheds her mourning garb and goes overboard with a rakish travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) who persuades her that lust is for the living...