Word: reuniones
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...movie has a pretty twist in store. [SPOILER] Nice-guy Marty is indeed the killer - the janitor had let him out of his room, he went to Mavis? place hoping for an anniversary reunion and, when she rudely rejected his affections, he strangled her with his scarf (overtones of Franchot Tone!) - but he doesn?t remember because his alcoholic stupor blotted out the deed. Now that all is clear, he wants to save the husband of the woman he loves. A killer racing against time to turn himself in: that?s a poignant twist...
...Even on the page, the siren-sucker relationship is a lot livelier than in Truffaut?s frozen ?Mermaid.? Which, by the way, never gets to Mississippi, or even to North America. The first setting is Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going...
...million Projected ticket sales of Simon and Garfunkel's latest reunion tour...
...response to the rising compensation of HMC investors, seven members of the Class of 1969, whose members are entering their 35th reunion year and will thus be heavily solicited for donations, sent a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Nov. 25, objecting to the size of HMC salaries in light of rising student expenses...
...letter’s signatories—who also sent copies to the officers and reunion co-chairs of their class, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella Rapier and Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone—leverage their financial power in the letter, threatening to curtail their giving to the University unless it reconsiders the issues they raise...