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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pinch. To the camponês, no price is too steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
Rugby is American football without the rules. Fifteen players without the benefit of padding attempt to bring a sort of bloated football across their opponents' goal line. They can run with it, kick it, or pass it laterally or backward. If a man with the ball is tackled by an opponent he must drop it immediately, and both teams form a "scrum," that is, a circular pile of men attempting to kick the ball into their possession and kick their opposition away from the ball...
...fact that the characters are well-dressed, go to restaurants, drive cars, freely express their opinions, live in modern apartments, and complain about "administrative fools"? This is a curious kind of logic! It reminds me of a capitalist who came to Moscow from his Eastern country, unfortunately a backward country. "You call this socialism?" said the man. "In my country we have real socialism, for three-fourths of our population go barefoot and in rags!" Poverty and starvation were never a sign of socialism-either in the works of Marx or in the works of Lenin...
Kotz estimated that 8000 sympathizers will join the march to protest the United States' role in "holding up a repressive, dictatorial, backward government in South Vietnam...
...scratching sound-and-sight gag who seems determined to out-overact the best of them. But Bette meets the challenge in a climactic staircase scene, a horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls, eyeballs and quivering flesh. By the time she rumbles to a stop, audiences may justly wonder which apparition is scarier-Bette at the bottom or that Thing up top with the muddy feet...