Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal crown was fashioned by Paris Jeweler Arthus Bertrand, who topped it with a 138-carat C.A.E. diamond. The crown alone cost $2 million; Bokassa's scepter and Catherine's diadem upped the jewelry bill to $5 million...
...Loved Women is Bertrand (Charles Denner), a provincial French lab technician who guiltlessly pursues a life of one-night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women because he knows there is no one woman who can offer him complete fulfillment. Eventually he writes a memoir about his exploits-a Story of Adele H. in reverse, one might say-and dies happy...
This time there is no struggle and no enlightenment: Bertrand is just a flip Don Juan-a stock comic figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...
...unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring on civic disorder-in a thousand ways, both trivial and important, the world would be a different place. Warming to his case, a reporter might take his stand with Bertrand Russell, who said that it was no more the duty of a philosopher than of an accountant to return a favorable balance sheet on mankind...
...lake was Charles Bouchard, former manager of Banque Leclerc, a small, discreet Geneva financial institution that Swiss authorities had ordered closed pending an investigation into losses of $12 million or more in real estate ventures. Only a few days earlier, Bertrand de Muralt, a Leclerc partner and reserve Swiss army major, had shot himself with his revolver. Robert Leclerc, for whom the bank is named, suffered a heart attack...