Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting contribution to the growing number of films about upper-middle-class fears and fantasies, particularly those related to sex and marriage. This film treats some of the same discontents as Scenes from a Marriage or Sunday, Bloody Sunday, but it is closer in conception to something like The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, which makes more sense on the psychological than the plot level. Unfortunately, it lacks the fanciful and humorous elements of Discreet Charm, but it has a few ideas of its own to offer...
...good, given the built-in limitations of the roles--this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and luxurious suburban house, takes a little vacation at a continental spa, perhaps in search of some discreet adultery. There she encounters a young man (Helmut Berger) who claims to be a poet. Actually, he is a sort of well-tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser flair for dope-running--he caches a large supply of cocaine on the roof of their...
During his 21 months as Washington's Ambassador to Ottawa, William Porter, 61, earned the respect of many Canadians as a concerned professional envoy. He traveled frequently through the country, mixed easily with its citizens, gave thoughtful and discreet talks about issues that jointly affect Canada and the U.S. But last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers...
...only one of many pretty women who drifted into the President's orbit (see following story). Recently, however, details of the affair became known publicly, and last week Judith Campbell, now Mrs. Daniel Exner, 41, and something of a look-alike for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, ended her discreet silence. At a press conference in San Diego, she admitted that the President had once shared her affections with two mobsters. But she declined comment when bluntly asked whether she and Kennedy had ever had sexual relations...
...close personal" relationship with Jack Kennedy, she was only confirming what had long been a matter of open and widespread speculation: that even after he entered the White House, the handsome and fun-loving Kennedy never stopped pursuing attractive women-nor they him. His privacy guarded by discreet Secret Service agents, his wife often away on vacations, his duties affording frequent travel, and the aura of his office proving nearly irresistible, Kennedy as President found the catching all the easier...