Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rainy Cherbourg, Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve) keeps slipping away from her mother's umbrella shop to meet an ardent garage mechanic, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Guy goes off to the war in Algeria, leaving Genevieve pregnant. When she doesn't hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
Despite its seeming effort to imitate operetta, Umbrellas is essentially pure fable, cleverly edged with pessimism. By exercising a stylistic savoir-faire that saucily regards faults as virtues, Director Jacques Demy transforms it into a film of unique and .haunting beauty. Suspended in silvery rain above a cobblestone street, the camera peers down at a crimson umbrella that is soon jostled by others into a colorful mosaic. Again, the tumbling of carnival masqueraders past a plate-glass window adds ineffable poignancy to Actress Deneuve's tranquil blonde perfection as she waits for Guy. And in her wedding scene, wearing...
Over the new skyline of Hartford, Conn., hangs a big, bright red umbrella -symbolically, at least. The umbrella is the emblem of the Travelers Insurance Companies, which played a major part in making the skyline possible with a $40 million investment in office buildings, a hotel, a shopping center and garages. In its 100 years, the U.S.'s largest stock insurance company (it is fourth among all insurance firms) has also reshaped the skyline of the $178 billion insurance industry, introducing such firsts as double indemnity and automobile insurance. Last week Travelers did some internal reshaping. Into its vacant...
...approval of MLF would emphasize Atlantic interdependence and isolate France in opposition to the Force. De Gaulle's rationale for the French nuclear deterrent has always been that if America did not want her cities destroyed as a result of a purely Continental struggle, France would provide the atomic umbrella for Europe. De Gaulle fears that MLF might eventually provide, as Kennedy hinted, for sharing control of the nuclear button. Shared control of existing weapons would largely obviate the raison d'etre of the separate French deterrent. The deterrent, in turn, is on of the keys to the General...
...California tomato crop this year. A Salinas firm has just started making a phrenological lettuce picker-it feels each head to determine if it is ripe-invented by agricultural engineers at the University of California. Other promising machines: a contraption that shakes peaches off trees into an inverted canvas umbrella, one that picks raisin grapes from trellised vines, one that plucks ripe cantaloupes from the earth while leaving green melons to mature...