Word: rues
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Even before Nixon's resignation, all Democrats and even some Republicans had good reason to rue the accession of President Ford. Now all that has changed. It will take weeks and months for the full political effects of Ford's presidency to become known, but by last week leading Republicans and Democrats were already busily assessing the post-Nixon political box score, trying to slot the winners and losers...
...life that young Parisians aspire to. Pierre, 35, is a successful urban development consultant with an income of $22,000. France, 32, is a part-time decorator who earns more than $6,000 a year. They live in a handsome but inexpensive six-room, sixth-floor apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu, just a block from the Champs-Elysées, with their two small daughters. A full-time maid lives on the floor above. In winter the Raguins take a week off to ski in the French Alps; in summer they rent a modestly priced seaside villa...
...Fred La Rue [a former Mitchell aide] doing it. Now Fred started out going out trying to solicit money from all kinds of people...
...same rock music, but otherwise bear no resemblance to Graffiti's kids. Instead they are the inheritors of the Henry Aldrich tradition, in which the awkwardness, sexual inexperience and general un-worldliness of youth are good only for an indulgent, nostalgic laugh. They are never touched by honest rue, let alone intimations of tragedy. The program is full of period references-Mickey Spillane, stuffing telephone booths, a wondrous new gadget known as the seat belt-but there is never a reference to the human heart...
...Bridges agreeably aw-shucks their way along through life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode is half-expressed rue leavened by quaint down-home turns of phrase. In attempting to cover four decades in an hour and a half, the story uses an enormous amount of voice-over narration. The device does not exactly enhance our involvement with the film. Director Lumet, venturing for the first time into Western...