Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
...Montreal ,and we don't know the language. How are we going to explain to the auto mechanic that our car is piece of shit. Unfortunately, no gas station was open at 5:30 in the morning so we were unable to practice our Franco-English. C' est la vie. (It's the only French phrase I know.) In fact, the only thing that was open was a 24-hour peep show which only losers go to. And, losers that we are, we went in and spent some time there until we were sleepy. Because we didn't have enough...
...Lowell House election, scheduled for Thursday and Friday of this week, will be hotly contested as four residents vie for the position...
...junior faculty members vie for tenure, each professor who stays past the traditional retirement age means a tenure position still not available...
...important, really -- just another banal triangle. Though based on a 1969 French film, Les Choses de la Vie, Intersection made at least one viewer think of Blue, the 1993 French movie that's also about infidelity and life's sad ironies. There was a felt reality in the intimacy of Blue's textures, and its elliptical style kept the eye puzzled and alert. Not for the first time one wonders why American moviemakers can't get the hang of, the fun of, the higher trivia...