Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the age of reason, when the philosopher Rene Descartes, whom Hals painted, proclaimed "I think, therefore I am." Man as pictured by Hals bulks almost impertinently from the canvas, but often there is a glint of self-knowledge in his eyes...
Contributors have always ranked among France's most eminent men of letters; today they range from Political Analyst Raymond Aron to Moviemaker Rene Clair to Biologist Jean Rostand to Play wright Jean Anouilh...
...action scenes the Gaullist heroes-ludicrously misdirected by Rene Clement, who made his reputation with a film about children (Forbidden Games)-look so much like a platoon of preschool toddlers playing bang-I-gotcha! that instead of glory they get mostly guffaws. After an hour or so of this, most previewers were badly rattled. Some tried plugging their ears, but then the action looked completely incomprehensible. Some tried closing their eyes, but then they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered...
...Your Soup." Sagan herself has remained a la mode ever since, at 18, she mailed the manuscript of Tristesse to the late publisher Rene Juilliard. He stayed up all night reading, next day offered Sagan 50,000 francs if she would ask her father, a manufacturer of abrasives, for permission to publish it. "I am famous," Francoise announced at dinner that night. "Eat your soup before it gets cold," replied Papa...
...lady's new lease on life originated as a fragile short story by Bertolt Brecht, and Writer-Director Rene Allio sketches it on film with the ease and delicacy of an artist who knows the value of priceless old things. Insurance against the occasional pangs of creeping senility is provided by French Stage Star Sylvie, a clear-eyed, quick-stepping, 81-year-old charmer who plays the title role with no pauses for sentimental nonsense. Whether cruising serenely up and down an escalator or boldly offering a well-weathered wrist to a perfume saleslady, Sylvie exudes the quiet...