Word: shuttlecocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film records the shuttlecock progress of Charlotte (Macha Mcril), a rather pretty young woman who shares her affections with Pierre (Philippe Leroy), an airplane pilot, and Robert (Bernard Noel), an actor. Although Pierre is her husband, the distinction makes little difference; she doesn't know who has fathered her unborn child, and she dismisses the question (in fact, nearly all questions) from her mind: The Married Woman contains incident but no development, characterization but no conflict. Charlotte and Robert make love, Pierre comes home, Charlotte and Pierre hold a dinner party and make love, Pierre departs, and Charlotte and Robert...
Some Britons who tend to demand new station houses and an end to deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...