Word: une
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper hour (training began at six weeks) brought the certain retribution of laxative powder. Nannying appears to have provided parents with some peculiar satisfactions. As proof that the popularity of the system spread, the author has turned up a mid-19th century French newspaper ad asking for "Une gouvernante anglaise-méthodes drastiques...
...unions refused to handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that...
BURR HALL, May 17: Max Ophuls' Lola Montes, 7:30. The Earrings of Madame de...., 9:30. May 18: Francois Truffaut's Une Histoire d'Eau and Stolen Kisses, 7:30, Bed and Board, 9:30. May 19: Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, 7:30 and 9:30. $1 per film...
...concert opened with "three short pieces to be played (without break) in the form of a suite." Moshell's intriguing idea of flanking Ravel's Pavane pour une infanta defunte by two works of Stravinsky (Scherzo a la Russe and Feu d'artifice) worked well. But there was a lack of crisp rhythmic and textural precision in the performance of the Stravinsky pieces (problems which were evident in most of the orchestra's playing); the "Fireworks" in particular included some ambiguous string playing and a weak transition back to the fast material. The Ravel Pavane, however, was well played...
Dominique's story, in fact, avoids becoming a cliché only because her breakthrough was so extraordinarily easy. "I found her on the telephone," says Robert Bresson, who directed her in her first film, Une Femme Douce. "When I heard her voice, I guessed that she was beautiful." Like most women famed for their enigmatic charm, Dominique cannot understand what the fuss is all about. Now, far beyond her flaming youth, she does not lead such an unusual life. Though she and Marquand have no plans to marry, they are looking for a house in Provence, where they...