Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love and the Frenchwoman (Auerbach; Kingsley International) is a plaster-of-Paris whale (2 hr. 23 min.) of a picture from the French Old Wave-artificial but amusing. In form, the film is a cinemanthology of seven short subjects, each written by a famous French novelist or scenarist, each directed by a different man, each played by different actors, and intended altogether to dramatize the seven ages of woman. In effect, it is the usual shallow but intelligent French discussion, toujours gai and sometimes icily ironic, of what makes the world go round...
Tues., March 14 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An account of a remarkable odyssey: an 11,000-mile whale hunt, ranging all the way from the Black Sea to the Antarctic. Filmed by Soviet cameramen...
...nuclear tests. But independence can be a relative thing. Only after Cousins & Co. have finally moved into McCall's spacious quarters at 230 Park Avenue and their little magazine has joined the other 56 magazines printed on the McCall presses in Dayton will the readiness of a whale to respect the independence of a minnow get its real test...
...Government has no right to educate children. The family has an obligation to educate children through local school boards and local taxes." As for federal medical aid to the aged, "If my kids don't take care of me when I'm old, I'll whale...
Rome, the city of grandiose ruins, was "erected by parvenus," new-rich "imperial lunatics" with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse...