Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schwarz-Bart begins his dramatic moral fable in a timeless, tribal Africa, where spirits inhabit the trees, tom-toms breathe lightly under agile fingers and the dead are buried in the fields so they can blow life into the roots of the crops. Ancestors who tire of the underground may slip into a passing pregnant woman and be reborn...
...rumor, but the profile of Beatty in a recent Walter Scott Personality Parade makes him sound like a swell candidate. Anyway, good to see healthy revelation coming in with Ma Nature's second half offensive. This weather's going to make it real hard to change the shredded front tire on my car. To the music...
...Hulot and his fellow employees of the Altra auto company to get a new-model family camper from the firm's Paris plant to an auto show at Amsterdam. They are waylaid on the highways by a seemingly endless variety of motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles is a little like watching a wayward eel float through a fleet of submarines...
...greatest troubles afflict the ambitious transnational combinations of companies. Two years ago, Britain's Dunlop and Italy's Pirelli pooled interests to form a tire, cable and rubber giant, with sales of $2.3 billion. At the time, Leopoldo Pirelli, chairman of his family-run Italian company, said, "This is a marriage from which there is no turning back." Yet last week the partners had divorce in mind...
...nearly all of Europe's vineyards. Thousands of American rootstocks, with their phylloxera-resistant native roots, were shipped over to Europe. Thus most European wine is made from transplanted U.S. vines, and most California wine is made from vines that originated in Europe-a kinship that Californians never tire of pointing out to Francophile wine snobs...