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...over-lightly" stage; 2) the "hell-to-pay and no-bread-in-the-house" stage, in which, for a month or more, both company and union will indignantly denounce each other's proposals; 3) the "clutch" stage, in which, with the contract about to expire, both sides will abandon histrionics and coolly decide what they can afford to give or take...
...lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they fancy is abandon: they dig le jazz, say "so longue" to each other, and crack up cars. All that need be said of Cheaters is that toward the end of it, after a crackup, a surgeon utters that immemorial line from the U.S. Old Wave: "I'm sorry. There was nothing more...
Erica, by contrast, is the lyric tragedy of a shy, dreaming eight-year-old girl who. during the bitter days after World War II. realizes that her family is poor. From that moment on. she is haunted by the fear that her parents will abandon her, her younger brother and sister in the forest-as poor parents often do in stories she had heard. When her father and mother finally do abandon the children to seek work elsewhere. Erica is relieved. Now 14, she feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors...
...thus our obligation to the people of West Berlin and their right to choose their own future. We are not seeking to change the present situation. A binding German peace treaty is a matter for all who were at war with Germany, and we and our allies cannot abandon our obligation to the people of West Berlin...
...Geneva went instructions to continue trying to outsit the Russians (which Dean wryly calls "the bladder technique"). The faint hope was that U.S. patience and the pressure of world opinion might just wring out some Russian concession. "The stakes are too important." said President Kennedy, "for us to abandon the draft treaty we have offered at Geneva...