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...other side of the coin, Amiel Sternberg's Uncle Ernie, a doddering bugger who assaults Tommy while singing "Fiddle About," is certainly a horny old bastard but is played too much as a drooling victim of uncontrollable sexual urges. The innocent relish of Daltry's original has disappeared and the desperate emotion that takes its place is unconvincing. Who would even ask the question "Do you think it's all right--(to leave the boy with Uncle Ernie)" if they were leaving him behind with such a creature...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: One More For Keith | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...ever since the Moslem Hausa in Nigeria's vast, arid Northern Region slaughtered 30,000 Ibos last fall, the two tribes have been blood enemies. The Ibos are not likely to let bygones be bygones. "They are stubborn," says Amiel Fagbulu, soon to be Minister of Education in Nigeria's Western Region. "They know what they want and they fight for their rights." Colonel Ojukwu, the Biafran head-of-state, has reportedly armed 100,000 irregulars for long-term guerilla warfare...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Nigeria's Agony | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

...student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why? Why? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Bathroom Rafter. The court had ordered Amiel to pay 3,000,000 francs' ($6,113) damages to the Rollands, and Mme. Amiel prepared to sell their new house to raise the money, proudly refused financial help from her husband's fellow teachers. Several days after the court had awarded damages to the Rollands, an anonymous letter postmarked Paris arrived at their home. "Congratulations on the good business," it read. "Several million francs-now there's a death that pays off ..." Leaving a note that said, "I am going to join Alain," Banker Rolland last week tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why? Why? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...there to be no end to our tragedies!" cried Mme. Amiel. The news of Rolland's suicide was kept from Prisoner Jean Amiel, himself despondent as he served his prison term. Eager to get away from Perpignan, Amiel wrote a letter to Dr. Albert Schweitzer at his African clinic, offering his services when he was released from jail. At week's end, there was a faint ray of hope for at least one of the grief-ridden families of Perpignan: Dr. Schweitzer replied that he would be glad to welcome Jean Amiel as an assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why? Why? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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