Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the famous whips-and-chains novel of the '50s. Since the movie opened last month, O has become a major news story in France. Radio and TV programs endlessly debate the film's merits. The weekly L'Express featured Actress Corinne Cléry, who plays the film's tortured protagonist, on its cover, nude above the waist, and inside printed six graphic full-color stills from the movie...
Gallic Subtlety. Although President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing virtually abolished censorship six months ago, Secretary of State for Culture Michel Guy still has authority to ban anything on stage or screen that goes too far. Guy, however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety...
Trying to disentangle the woman, who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804, from the legendary creature known as George Sand could easily have proved a biographer's undoing. But Curtis Gate, whose previous work includes a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, approaches the task with both the patience of a scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost...
...world approaching with too many people in it and too few resources to go around, an absence of faith that solutions are possible or leaders will be found to provide them. Rarely has this feeling been described with such elegant despair as that expressed by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France: "The present world crisis . . . is not just a passing perturbation but in reality represents a permanent change. If we examine the major graphic curves that are drawn for the future by the phenomena of our times, you see that all of these curves lead...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing accepted the move "with serenity." Not so the islanders, who suddenly saw millions of French francs retreating along with French authority. Last week while Abdallah was away from the capital city of Moroni, the opposition leader and a force of 50 men took over the radio and TV station and caught Abdallah's Territorial Guard totally by surprise. "The mouthings of that man [Abdallah] are henceforth meaningless," declared Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence...