Word: rivieras
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Between Philadelphia and the French Riviera was a lengthy apprenticeship. At St. Joseph's College, Corliss helped edit the school newspaper. After studying film history at Columbia University and at New York University, he worked as a film critic for publications as disparate as the National Review, New Times and the now defunct Soho News before joining TIME in 1980. In addition to his reviewer's duties, Corliss co-edits a bimonthly journal called Film Comment (circ. 48,000), scouts films for the New York Film Festival's program committee and is a member of the New York Film Critics...
Corliss likens his sojourn in Cannes to "summer camp in the dark." It was his 15th consecutive festival (he started attending in 1973). "In Cannes, critics mingle with charming men and beautiful women whose films they secretly plan to savage. For a fortnight on the Riviera, I had a great time...
...camera work is so bad that the movie doesn't even work as a travel advertisement for the Riviera (a true disaster in a beach movie). Par for the course in TV dramas and box-office disasters, even the badly shot landscapes look too sublime for the characters. Perhaps here is the supposed redeeming feature: Frank succeeds in proving what a boring, plastic heap of expensive cars and coppertoned bodies the Riviera has become...
Waite, the 6-foot-7 Anglican Church envoy, was last seen by reporters Jan. 20 when he left the Riviera Hotel in west Beirut to meet the kidnappers of two Americans. Since then, Waite has not contacted the church or his family...
Both drivers work in the neighborhood of the Riviera Hotel, where Waite stayed between his arrival in Lebanon on Jan. 12 and the time he dropped from sight...