Word: avocat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Tshombe could not be extradited for purely political reasons, ruled the Algerian Supreme Court, "Algerian justice does not shield murder and robbery." If President Houari Boumediene ratifies the Court's decision Tshombe must go home-presumably to his doom. For the best-known avocat in the French-speaking world, it was a rare, bitter defeat. In 20,000 cases, Floriot has lost only two clients to the guillotine and about ten to the firing squad...
...velodrome, with Ben Bella winning." As for historical hilarity, Bousgarbiès said he could even stomach a current Paris revue that portrays Joan of Arc hearing those voices and then yanking a transistor radio out of her bodice. But tax-paid satire of Napoleon? "Scandalous," bristled the aged avocat. "I would be just as upset to see Joan of Arc doing a striptease or Clemenceau wrestling on government television...
What's more, the characters and the plot have got pretty well snarled up in the camera. Star Sinatra plays a Parisian avocat with the usual lively avocation, but his tired voice and gestures may suggest to moviegoers who have seen his recent films that Sinatrophy is setting in. Star MacLaine, who with better direction has handled herself like an American Kay Kendall, seems little better in this picture than a female Jerry Lewis...