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...Gary Borchard 49 50 148 12.3 Bob Bowditch 44 15 103 8.6 Mike Donohue 39 14 92 7.7 Bryant Danner 34 19 87 7.3 Greg Loser 28 10 66 6.6 Bill Danner 9 23 41 3.4 Pete Hart 6 5 17 2.4 Dave Grayer 8 1 17 1.7 Marc Kolden 2 8 12 1.2 Doug Devine...
That night, sick of her senseless life and ready for anything, the wife takes a midnight stroll in her nightgown through moonlit meadows. She meets a young archaeologist (Jean-Marc Bory), a chance guest in the house. He kisses her. Suddenly, deliriously, they understand that "this is the real thing''-or so the narrator says. Les amoureux then go back to her room, and with the sound track blaring Brahms (a sextet, naturally) and the camera calmly watching almost everything that happens, they make passionate and explicitly French love 1) in her bed, 2) in the bathtub...
Although the plot is wearing, the acting is not. With one possible exception, the cast makes the most of the script. The wife, Jeanne Moreau, considering her scanty dialogue, performs remarkably well. Her lover, Jean-Marc Bory, though hampered by the false assumption that he is Marlon Brando, turns in a credible performance, and the heroine's girl friend, played by Judith Magre, is a brilliant caricature of the fashionable Parisienne...
...long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering, Salvador Dali dropped in to examine a bronze book cover that had just been cast...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...