Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title role. Marjorie Hellmold gives the innocent milkmaid just the right touch of flirtatiousness, and her naivete becomes appealing, not ludicrous. Unfortunately, she, too, suffers from the chorus's conspicuous horsing around. Throughout her first act solo. "I cannot tell what this 'love' may be," the ensemble of "lovesick maidens" is sneaking up on her and trying to strangle her with their tear-stained handkerchieves, only to trip over themselves as she steps out of their path. Hellmold sings sweetly and sincerely, and it is a shame that the chorus should detract from her performance...
...Bean family remembers 1976 as an embarrassing year; that's when it won a Coty award from the fashion industry. And then, "in 1979, the beginning of 1980, this preppy thing began to happen...It's just one of those things. For a little while, people come in and touch where we are. We stay in the same place...
...most worrisome aspect of the crisis was that the hostilities could touch off a wider Middle East conflict. Israel has thrown its support behind the Lebanese Christians in their conflict first with the Palestinians, more recently with the Syrians. Lebanese leftists and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders charge that Israel is behind a Christian plot to drive the Syrians out of the Bekaa Valley and link up with Major Haddad's Christian contingent in the South. For this reason, the Syrians positioned the bulk of their 22,000 troops in the Lebanon valley...
...many false starts, much bruised feeling and the occasional contretemps that seems, in retrospect, almost comic. At the time though, his quest was no laughing matter. Anthony Holden, one of his biographers, recalls that Charles became 'obsessed with the subject of marriage' and often noted, with a touch of sadness, that most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings of his parents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, turn from indulgence to impatience until, one long weekend when the Prince was away and unreachable, the Queen gave vent to the slightly petulant and now famous...
This is a typical example of Fellini's delicacy of touch; the feminist storm troopers and the dream-within-the-dream (set, of course, in a carnival) are yet to come. In the end his Don Juan learns what all Don Juans have learned: that they are searching for an ideal woman who does not, cannot exist; that they are thus doomed to a lovelessness that makes a mockery of their extraordinary exertions in the craft of love. There are easier ways to make so banal a point...