Word: vauthier
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Ostensibly, the girls are pitiable embodiments of evil-monsters created by callousness, oppression, and the unnatural conditions of servitude. But Director Nico Papatakis and Scenarist Jean Vauthier twist this black theme into a cinema of absurdity that falls somewhere between the Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress...
...issue: Belgians are linguistically a mixture of French speakers and Flemish speakers, each faction striving to oust the language of the other from Belgium's schools. Last February the famed University of Ghent was made 100% Flemish-speaking by Parliament. Recently Minister of Science & Arts Maurice Vauthier decreed that no professor from the University of Ghent may teach in other Belgian colleges...
Although M. Vauthier is a Liberal, the Brussels Liberal Federation last week censured his act and. when he remained stubborn, his fellow liberal ministers and Prime Minister Henri Jaspar called at the Royal Palace, informed His Majesty that they had no option except to resign...
...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...
...Among our sculptors who is the one that best represents today the art of the old Institut, the abominable firehouse art? Assuredly M. Moreau-Vauthier. He has perhaps had his hour. It is past...