Word: balthazar
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...HASARD Balthazar (writer-director Robert Bresson) is an attack on sentimentality that manages to avoid all the depressing, self-affirming, grimy little pessimism that flaunts itself in the name of honest cinema. The conception here is far more complex: something of benign hopelessness with a comic sense. Bresson has something unpleasant to say, but he says it pleasantly. He sets his film in the countryside and makes of the story an inverted pastoral...
...this human drama, the narrative focus remains on Balthazar throughout the film. It is his life that frames events, his development that determines the plot line, and when his fortune changes, the direction of the film likewise changes. This gives to all that happens an off-center perspective; events are glimpsed rather than defined...
Reduced Pension. In the 31 years since he succeeded the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd as Premier, Johannes Balthazar Vorster has remained true to the goal of apartheid. Only last week, for instance, his government ruled that a retired soldier named Sam Dorkin had been reclassified as a mixed-blood "Colored" after 75 years of life as a white man; his army pension was reduced from $61 to $29 a month. Nonetheless, Vorster has managed to loosen some of apartheid's tight restrictions. He adopted an "outward-looking" policy of establishing trade and diplomatic links with a few black states...
...indeed, there is evidence that the government of John Balthazar Vorster has become disillusioned by Jonathan's most recent behavior. Even white supremacists, it seems, see something repugnant in dictators...
When South African Prime Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster took office three years ago, he seemed the ideal man to continue the white supremacist ways of his predecessors-Johannes Strijdom, Daniel Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd. Grim and humorless, he had served five years as Minister of Justice and took credit for some of South Africa's harshest apartheid laws. To the ruling Nationalist Party, he was a hero, dedicated to preserving its policy of strict color separation. It is little short of amazing, then, that Vorster should now be under attack by Nationalist right-wingers as a dangerous liberal...