Word: yeux
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...modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard of the Bolshevik Revolution, was no less attentive to his mistress Lili Brik, though his poems were scarcely as complimentary as Aragon's. Lili was Elsa's older sister, and the series of stunning lyrics that Mayakovsky dedicated to her in the 1910s and 1920s agonized over her indifference...
...often missed because in the U.S., at least, opera is usually sung in the original language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before he attends a foreign-language performance...
...woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale (La Fille aux Yeux d'Or) on which the film is based, would surely have admired. Like the story the film has style, the grand fantastic style in which, as in a jungle, excess exceeds excess and every thing is reconciled in riot. Setting, lighting, cutting, acting: all are overdone to a degree...
...Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation scenique. Il faut signaler aussi Marcelle Ranson si accomplie dans le role d'Albine, et Claude Martin (Burrhus), qui d'une maniere brusque mais touchante prononce le jugement definitif sur Neron: "Ses yeux indifferents ont deja la constance/D'un tyran dans le crime endurci des l'enfance...
...Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies as they did. To man it is impossible but to Jews and Armenians and women...