Word: wednesday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday, June...
Adieu, De Gaulle. One of the rituals of the Gaullist regime is the general's Cabinet meeting each Wednesday morning at 10. Incredibly, the agenda last week proposed, among other things, a discussion of the status of models in the French fashion industry. As Pompidou was preparing to leave his offices in the Hotel Matignon for the drive to the Elysee Palace, the telephone rang. It was De Gaulle. He had to get away, De Gaulle said. For two nights, he had not slept, and now, in De Gaulle's words, he "couldn't see clearly." Moments...
...winners of the two first round games will play Wednesday and then the tournament will continue on a "round-robin" basis until three of the teams have lost twice. The surviving team then goes to Omaha, Neb.; for the national finals...
...Washington Street's huge movie palaces, one-time legitimate theatres whose vaudeville slates still hang adjacent to the vast screens now lit dimly by the beam of a projector hundreds of yards away. Here play the films which last only seven days, the product that changes each Wednesday, supplied by a distribute who senses vaguely that the theatrical release of Robert Wagner films is a hollow formality prior to a greater pay-off of television sale and a nationwide screening on Saturday Night at the Movies. And when we sit in the half-light of these theatres, distracted by candy...
...semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre by being a little better. It is, and its inevitable disappearance on Wednesday should not go entirely unnoticed, nor should we necessarily ignore the Orpheum's next seven-day double-bill. Note that the B picture is not dead, that genre melodrama is still capable of quiet surprise or some intelligence, that small cinematic pleasures often lie where we least suspect them, then that...