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...making them seem victims, and with an attention to sexual realism that verged on hard-core. Breillat suffered a cerebral hemmorage a while back; that hasn't stopped her career but it has slightly softened her tone. An Old Mistress, based on a 19th century novel by Jules-Am?d?e Barbey d'Aurevilly, is the director's first period film; she wants to see what's under those elegant manners and fancy dresses...
...often go unnoticed or unaided. Most violence in the world, he charged, is "structural"-the violence of "racism, militarism, hunger, exploitation of people, economic inequity, war, disease, and poverty." By contrast, "revolutionary violence is a tiny percentage-and a response to systematic violence." Indeed, said Swiss Pastor Clement Barbey, assistant to Potter, revolutionary violence has been the accepted answer to such oppression. "Are the Africans in Mozambique who fight the Portuguese for their freedom any different from our Swiss ancestors who took up arms for their freedom from Austrian oppressors in 1291?" he asked...
Said French Novelist Barbey d'Aurevilly: "Léon Bloy is a cathedral gargoyle who pours the waters of heaven down on the good and on the wicked...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
Instead, the Russians agreed to a Central Government landing at Yingkow, a minor Manchurian port. But when U.S. trans ports made ready to unload, the Russians suddenly pulled out, leaving Chinese Communists in control. In the face of threatened Communist opposition, U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey withdrew his transports...