Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long on Army regulations, short on common humanity. Sadly enough for Tom Swanson. the middle-aged sergeant takes a shine to him. He installs him as company clerk, breaks up his lyrical love affair with a charming French girl, and begins an unconscious homosexual pursuit. Each night he takes the boy off to village bars until their lives become a dreadful bender from which Tom cannot escape, only half sensing the truth about the sergeant that must sooner or later burst to the surface...
After a spell in a top Soviet prep school, he went on to two other educational experiences-a brief exile in Kazakhstan (for no reason except that all Germans had to go) and an unhappy love affair (his girl was recruited into the NKVD...
...real hero of the affair is Fernandel himself, and it is a pity his role is not larger. He has a marvelous antique car that trots like a spavined horse, and he shines in an all-too-brief drunk scene. The sight of Fernandel in uniform- he follows the pilot off to war-helps to explain the failure of the Maginot Line...
...French history; but it makes the dullest part of this picture. In this part of the real story, the center of interest naturally shifts from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what would interest the moviegoer does not seem to interest the moviemaker-or perhaps the size of the subject frightened him. In any case. Director...
...fact, Voltaire soon started a passionate affair with his niece, Mme. Denis, 32. He kept it so secret that it was only found out a few years ago. when a trove of his letters to her came to light. Both Voltaire and Emilie were getting temporarily bored with one another, but, as Voltaire explained, it was necessary for the sake of appearances to maintain one of France's most famous love affairs-otherwise, what would people say? And so the two philosophers remained close-until Emilie became pregnant, at the age of 42 (much too old, by the standards...