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Jules and Jim could work as well as it did because Truffaut was still given to a young man's scepticism. And Jeanne Moreau at the center of the film held it together through a flamboyance and taste for the absurd that kept the love story where love stories belong between the lines. The comic suicide that ends Jules and Jim--Moreau's Katherine driving off an unfinished bridge--is the sort of outrageous gesture that Truffaut cannot even begin to approach in Two English Girls. Simplicity has turned to simple mindedness and tenderness to tripe...
...Party never developed a mass following, however. Today, Powers estimated, about 40 per cent of its 5,000 to 10,000 members also belong to trade unions...
Henry de Lumley, who has led many teams of volunteer explorers into the valley during snow-free summer months, believes that the primitive art was inscribed between 1800 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Thus the carvings belong "not to prehistory but to protohistory-that period of roughly 2,000 years between prehistoric times and recorded history." De Lumley's dating involved shrewd detective work in museums. The short, triangular dagger blades portrayed in many of the engravings, for instance, closely resemble artifacts already identified as products of early Bronze Age (1800 B.C.-1500 B.C.) civilizations in the Rhone Valley...
Women legislators are not solely women: they belong to particular ethnic groups, to religious bodies, to economic classes, to political parties...most important, women legislators belong to and are beholden to a male-dominated power structure that draws them in even when they would resist...
...rights Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann should belong to the tenor in the title role. It is he, after all, who goes awooing, however unsuccessfully, after Stella the actress, Olympia the windup doll, Giulietta the courtesan and Antonia the consumptive soprano. If he is not careful, though, the tenor can be easily upstaged by the soprano who normally portrays all four heroines. Her music is uniformly exquisite, and on top of that she gets to show her legs in the gondola scene...