Word: berlitz
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...been sent to his doom by the director's pursuit of a terrific death scene. In return the young man will get protection from the police. Cross is as good as his word in the matter, but before the happy denouement he puts Lucky through a sort of Berlitz course in existentialism. In his Godlike role. Cross redefines the stunt man's reality for him every day, thus forcing the youth into a perpetual state of imbalance, where he must constantly re-examine his own premises. Is the leading lady (Barbara Hershey) falling in love with...
...takes more time choosing an outfit than he does kissing Lauren Hutton to a silly-faced plateau of pleasure. Rarely can he park his 450 SEL without it lurching forward as he jumps out. He picks up women in foreign languages, yet he speaks French like a scratched Berlitz record at 78. He is boring...
What was her job? "Black propaganda," she replies sweetly. On her right at table 33, André Pacatte bursts into the Marseillaise as a U.S. Army band plays the French national anthem. Before and after the war, Pacatte ran the Berlitz school in Washington; during the war he used his language skills behind German lines in France and Italy. He recalls taking a 14-hour plane flight with Donovan and a group of shell-shocked American flyers returning home for psychiatric treatment...
...including Los Angeles and Modern Photography, as well as Chilton Co., which publishes a score of specialty magazines. Manhattan-based Macmillan would broaden ABC's book publishing base considerably. In addition to its trade, text and reference book divisions, it owns the profitable international chain of some 200 Berlitz language schools as well as bookstores, department stores, music and film companies and the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school...
...rythme of French body language. "If you're off rhythm, it interferes with communications," he says. "I think of communication as a dance between two people. Sounds are often just the music to accompany the communication that takes place." That is why so many American tourists, fresh from Berlitz, get blank stares in France instead of directions: they understand the words but not the music...