Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karl W. Deutsch knows his lenses. He spent two years studying optics in England during the 1930s, when the political climate in his native Czechoslovakia kept him from teaching law. That stay in England, however, was only a small digression in a career that has spanned...a childhood and youth in Prague, Czechoslovakia, anti-Nazi efforts there while Hitler was consolidating his power, immigration to and studies in the Unites States,, and position today as president of the international Political Science Association...
There is a sober subtext to this nonsense. The film preaches against the excesses of self-absorption that are the wages of modern celebrity. It also makes a case against the cult of youth by demonstrating the grotesque lengths to which some people will go to try to cheat mortality. Since only a few thousand of the world's most privileged people are in a position to cope with these problems, it is hard to work up much moral indignation about them...
...screenplay presents not so much a plot as an intermingling of the past with the present. His torrid, impossible liason with the leonine Liliane (Dani) mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen in The 400 Blows, his mother's lover comes back to show...
...campaigned, Bush stressed his broad experience in government. In Boston, he pursued the youth vote very nearly to the cradle: "I want to restore the stars in third-graders' eyes." But he failed to stir his audiences with speeches that contained more thought than passion and were carefully qualified. Compared with either Connally or Reagan, Bush is unexciting on the stump, a serious handicap for any long shot...
...programming magic, if he has any left. For Silverman, who made his reputation at CBS and ABC, the task is formidable. Past NBC programmers failed to foresee the impact that the post-World War II baby boom would have on the industry. When the network belatedly went after the youth market in 1974, it managed to alienate a goodly portion of its once loyal older audience. Subsequent programming regimes sacrificed long-term ratings stability to score quick fixes with movies, miniseries, and other expensive ($1 million vs. $500,000 for a series episode) specials...