Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a hollow, hilarious party at which the guests talk only in the language of commercials, a television director named Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides that he needs his baby sitter more than his children do. With her in tow, he ricochets from Paris to the Riviera to an idyllic island where he hopes to end his days. He gets his wish: what begins as a fable of ennui ends as a parable of evil...
...baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina) was once the petite amie of gunrunners. Along the trek she cuts one midget ex-associate dead by blithely plunging scissors into his neck; eventually she runs off with another smuggler. Ferdinand finds the violence catching and, in an explosive finale, he erases all points of the triangle...
...eleven episodes old, Julia unfortunately shows no such thing. It is trite, sugary and preposterous. Take one recent show. When a kid says "Hello, there" to Julia's bright six-year-old son Corey (Marc Copage), he pipes: "Hello, where?" Squeals Corey's teen-age baby sitter: "You've got the wildest mind since they wrapped Ezra Pound in a wet sheet!" Later, a white neighbor lady in Julia's high-priced integrated apartment building pops in to exclaim: "This is the most exciting thing that's happened around here since...
Balancing Dissonance. The reason, perhaps, was that Vuillard never probed his sitter's secrets. As if telling too much about his subjects might embarrass them, he set them in surroundings they loved and gave both equal weight in the painting. Harmony was his aim. His success in balancing dissonant colors is demonstrated in the blending of 20 or more patterns in The Music Recital...
...theory, but why did he have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet gal, but for a low-salaried suburban house maid, she sports a wardrobe of high-fashion creations that would bat the false eyelashes...