Word: rue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bridges agreeably aw-shucks their way along through life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode is half-expressed rue leavened by quaint down-home turns of phrase. In attempting to cover four decades in an hour and a half, the story uses an enormous amount of voice-over narration. The device does not exactly enhance our involvement with the film. Director Lumet, venturing for the first time into Western...
...writer, Stein's fame lies as much in her life as her work. She kept the long-running artistic crap game going for nearly 50 years in her Paris salon. Though time has adjusted some of Gertrude's accounts, reputations really were made and broken at 27, rue de Fleurus...
...they deliver him to the brig, it appears he might just be man enough to survive his term there. Anyway, he has grown up enough to attempt a radical solution to his problem: running away from his captors. Ironically, this turns out to be the toughest test in his rue of passage: his guards are also the first friends he has ever made...
...Escaro told it, he happened to be passing the paper's new premises at 173 rue St.-Honoré when he noticed flashlight beams coming from the third-floor office of the managing director. Investigating, he found three workers in blue overalls and two other men in street clothes who explained that they were installing the heating; Escaro, however, happened to recall that the work had been done three weeks earlier...
Unlike many of their French newspaper competitors (and like U.S. food critics), Gault and Millau consistently name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well...