Word: savoir
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...career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status. His few films for MGM were undistinguished; he was too low-key for nightclubs. By mid-Depression the choice was narrow: the new medium of radio or the old misery of starvation...
...Savoir (Godard) 8, (weekend...
...something about how people in high places aren't all they seem to be called The Werewolf of Washington. Louis Malle's Calcutta, shot at the same time as the Phantom India series (now on tv, incidentally), is at the Central along with Jean Luc Godard's Le Gai Savoir. Two more different political films would be hard to imagine, yet both apply New Wave ideas of using the camera as pen. Malle treats the masses of Calcutta with touch of a journalist more interested in shocking than explaining. Godard's effort is billed as "an essay on language, film...
...popular decision, if long in coming. Chapin had amply shown that he could run a smooth operation, and that it was possible to have aristocratic savoir-faire without resorting to the autocratic methods of former Met Manager Rudolf Bing. As many a diva has learned, Chapin's tact and graciousness do not signal a relaxed will. He pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will...
...driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...