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...blame on men but on the bond of parternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...
...Angels is a flimsy French drama about a pair of roulette addicts. Amidst some properly bleak and disenchanted views of Riviera gaming rooms, Director Jacques Demy earnestly studies the squirmings of compulsive gamblers, one of whom, grace a Dieu, is Jeanne Moreau...
MARY POPPINS. Amidst a whirl of sticky-sweet Walt Disneyism, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke transform a modern juvenile classic into jolly good...
...certain unmistakable but less than libelous resemblances to the real-life tragedy of 1958 in which Lana Turner's teen-age daughter, Cheryl, killed her mother's lover. Producer Joseph E. Levine has dressed it up as what used to be called "a woman's picture." Amidst sumptuous settings, supposedly inhabited by the haut monde of San Francisco, Heroine Susan Hayward plays a world-famous "sculptor, pagan, alley-cat" who detests her domineering mother (Davis), betrays her war-hero husband, unwittingly snares a gigolo with her daughter until one calamitous night when the kid picks...
...Ripon attack came amidst an increasingly loud chorus of both private and public criticism of Goldwater by GOP leaders. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York was asked in Madrid, where he just arrived for a short vacation, whether he thought Goldwater should continue as the head of the party...