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...code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something about the lack of heroism among U.S. distributors that this gloriously wry and romantic film has taken 27 years to arrive here, especially since Melville did finally achieve international repute...
...must scrape the bottom of the barrel of credulity to believe that in one short summer or about two hours running time--a verit-able slew of the nasty little problems that life coughs up at us resolve themselves so quaintly. Among the difficulties that late (actually, kismet might be a better word for it dispenses with like some powerful spot remover are an old man's anxiety about aging and death, the long-time antipathy he and his daughter share, the uneasiness of the wife mother who is caught between them, and the generally screwed-up nature...
Opening their season in the Orange Bowl, the Crimson gridders win by forfeit when Columbia is unable to scrape together airfare for the flight South. Workers predict stadium renovations will be completed in time for the University's 350th anniversary...
...present to the poor, the free cheese has its drawbacks. Needy recipients will have to scrape mold off some of the cheese, which has been stored in 150 warehouses or limestone caves in 35 states for as long as 18 months. But, insists Merritt Sprague, a commodity supervisor for the Department of Agriculture, "mold does not produce toxin that is harmful." Not much variety in the menu, either: the cheese, stored in 5-lb. loaves, is all processed cheddar, the kind sold in grocery stores as "American cheese...
Against a background of white tablecloths and candlelight, preteen girls who sign up for "White Gloves and Party Manners" are instructed in such arcane lore as curtsying ("When you are presented to the Queen, your head should scrape the ground"). "Blue Blazer" seminars for boys omit the candlelight in favor of a clubroom atmosphere. At the Belk Tyler store in Rocky Mount, N.C., a White Gloves class, which opened in September, has been "a phenomenal success," according to Operations Manager Fred Combs. Says he: "Children are learning things they'd never learn at home...