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...that would be recognizable in any film company. There is the eager, flustered young leading man (Jean-Pierre Léaud); the older leading man with the assurance of experience (Jean-Pierre Aumont); and the older leading woman who drinks too much and muddles her scenes (Valentina Cortèse). There is the young leading woman, an American who has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and is making her first film in over a year (Jacqueline Bisset); the film groupie who starts out as a script girl and ends up running off with the stunt man (Dani). Also present...
...movie misses, too, the air of real panic and urgency of, say, 8½. Truffaut means, instead, to convey the consuming romance of the film-making process. Several sequences do break through to some intensity: Cortèse's muffing of a simple scene that starts comically and turns, with each of the actress's false starts and flailings, into a cameo of desperation; the director's dream recollection of his youth, when he sneaked down a street late one night and stole some Citizen Kane stills from outside a theater...
Since that time, Donald has written almost exclusively about what he calls "the other side"--the North and the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. While not a southern historian per se, he continues examining the southern people: "I want to know why they responded as they did to Lincoln, Sumner and others. This is part of my own coming to terms" with the southern experience, he said...
...junta asked Allende to surrender four separate times. "But the only thing he wanted was to gain time, possibly in the hope that our unity might break. We guaranteed his safe conduct out of the country. We even put off the air force attack for an hour to allow Señor Allende to consider his options...
Mixed with the welcoming festivities and the obligatory sightseeing tours was some serious business. The talks centered not so much on Sino-French relations per se as on China's intensifying interest in Western Europe as a bulwark against Soviet "hegemonism." As successor to De Gaulle, Pompidou is, in Chinese eyes, heir to De Gaulle's vision of a strong, independent Europe, a vision which Peking supports. Chou and Mao thus warned Pompidou of the extent of the Russian menace. "The danger of war still exists," insisted Chou during an evening banquet. The danger, he added, comes from...