Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such moments occur frequently in this racy, juvenile, artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...
...second and last act of Peterpat is a kill-and-make-up reconciliation scene. Under Joe Layton's fluid direction, it is a remarkably resourceful display of in-bed infighting. The sight gags are eruptively funny and the dialogue blends the flip quip with the rueful truth, as when Pat says to Peter apropos of his mistress: "Just think, if you had married her ten years ago, today you could be having an affair with...
...Communist Viet Cong supply lines in jungle-covered mountains; most came from the relatively civilized Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe. However, when the hated lowlanders from the Vietnamese government gradually took over the program, racial tension mounted in the training camps, and montagnards started defecting in ever-larger numbers. Rueful U.S. officers shrugged: "Hope we don't find ourselves fighting these montagnards." They may have to do just that. Last week some 500 rebellious Rhade warriors from five training camps swooped on strategic Banmethuot, a provincial capital 160 miles northeast of Saigon...
...Charlie, Behrman is improvising on the theme of "the inhuman race" in a rueful comedy of good, bad and bed manners. The play's hero, Seymour Rosenthal (Jason Robards Jr.), is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all but turned the running of the foundation over to an extravert pal from Yale days, self-interested Charles Taney (Ralph Meeker), who would rather down a Scotch than lift a book...
...rueful moment, University of California President Clark Kerr once defined his three main headaches as "sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty." Now sex and sport seem simple concerns, compared to parking-for everybody...