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Though nonsense of this kind is timeless, the farce is set in Paris in 1952, and it is clear that Director Claude Berri regards The First Time, like his earlier films The Two of Us and Marry Me, Marry Me, as a roguish memoir. The mighty engines of nostalgia come...
Skirts and dresses can be flowing or straight and slit; hem lines are generally shorter, falling just under the knee or to midcalf, but hardly ever to the ground. Heels are high and narrow.
In fact the relationship between the sexes, so buffeted by the feminist movement, seems once again to be taking on some subtlety and civility. Men are sending women flowers in greater numbers, the florists say, than at any time in the past decade and are regaining some of the manners...
In contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes...