Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
Bread & Butter. A self-styled maverick who dropped out of the University of Chicago Law School "because I didn't like it," Bruce Sagan is the youngest of three sons of a wealthy Manhattan garment manufacturer-and thus, in the eyes of his critics, has gone from riches to a rag. Even with help from his family, Sagan's success has been powered by a broad streak of pugnacity and a keen nose for news. Says his old City News boss, Managing Editor Isaac Gershman: "He moves three times faster than anyone else...
What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...Among other C.N.B. alumni: Walter Howey, model for the managing editor in The Front Page, the play's co-author Charlie MacArthur, and Hildy Johnson, the real-life reporter who was its hero. * No kin to Novelist Francoise Sagan, whose real name is Quoirez...