Word: wo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always carefully wrapped in nostalgia. At his best--in Jules and Jim Shoot the Piano Player Stolen Kisses-- he manages sufficient wit and irons to keep this side of sentimentality. But of late wit has faded irony has lapsed and nostalgia has Truffaut all to her mawkish self I wo English Girls is not only a failure it is an embarassment...
WELL INTO HIS SEVENTIES. French writer Henry Pierre Roche wrote companion novels of life and love in-pre World War I France In 1962. Truffaut adapted the first of these, Jules and Jim and that probably still ranks as his greatest critical success I wo English Girls is an adaptation of the second novel After ten years. Truffaut has gone back to the well but this time the bucket leaks...
...WO YEARS AGO, The New York Times characterized Cambridge as a traditional Old World city. Since then, however, much of the local flavor has made way for Baskin Robbins's 31 Flavors and other nation-wide chains. The impending John F. Kennedy Library Center on Boylston St. in the present MBTA yard will further transform the Harvard Square area in the next five years. Over a million tourists a year are expected to visit the Kennedy Library. Undoubtedly, streets will have to be rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will flee before an onslaught of hotels...
Ever since President Nixon lifted the embargo on Chinese imports last month, Americans have wondered precisely what tempting goods the People's Republic could offer. Part of the answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...
Actually, reports Wo Kee's Manager Bruce Jang, these are mere staples compared with what he intends to import...