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...structural familiarity spreads itself into the story. Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), thoroughly resistable convict, is the subject of a sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed...
...letting the ears lie back," Charles Ives said). He insists instead on treating the solo instruments and the singing or acerbic melodies as individuals, free to speak for themselves for as long as it takes them. Above all you can hear it in his trust for the most vulgar, most basic element of music: "Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music," wrote Pound, "and music atrophies when it gets too far from the dance...
Early in the 16th century, French barons (being saddled with the "barbarous" Gothic tradition) seemed as ignorant and vulgar to the Italians as, 400 years later, Texas barons were to the French. The Renaissance had to be imported to France. It came late, in the form of an international style known as Mannerism, and its arrival was largely due to a single patron, Francis...
...amplify this view, Herrnstein later notes that "not only the vulgar accusations of 'racism' and 'facism,' but also the political paranoia can be found in both the Russian and domestic Marxist reactions to the application of biology to the study of man..." He compares current radical views with those of T.D. Lysenko, a Russian anti-geneticist...
...enemies-there is an ample supply-dismiss her as vulgar, venal, vindictive and untrustworthy, a puffball of bluff. Even some friends regard her with the affectionate respect that they might accord a pet barracuda. "The first time she asked me to a party," remembers Client Dyan Cannon, "she said, 'Will you wash your face before you come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries...