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...have established little homes right through that region. So the Greek government pulls out, the junta pulls out, some kind of arrangement with the Turks. Very old, dead, nobody knew about it, about the sale of those lands to the Greek government. And they said, "All of this area belong to us. We will give you this compensation, we're going to raze you to the ground, and we're going to bring some big outfits from abroad to turn this into a great tourist city." Now this is the middle class guys that are being expropriated. What...
...know what death is?" Charles de Gaulle asked his former Minister of Culture, André Malraux. "The goddess of sleep," the renowned French novelist replied, adding: "We belong to that category of people who don't care about being killed." That lofty dialogue is part of Les Chênes Qu'On Abat (Fallen Oaks). Malraux's 236-page account of an "interview" between the two men eleven months before De Gaulle's death. Published in Paris last week, the book reveals little of substance that is new about De Gaulle but provides plenty of fresh...
...project, like Henry's old wallet, is bare. A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. He retains his unique webfooted shuffle, and still sends home his jokes special delivery. But his astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders or a Clifton Webb, not in a sardonic side-of-the-mouth piece. Moreover, May's improvisatory direction overindulges a slew of minor players who could be sued for nonsupport...
...Meredith in his battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
...from the characters that all we see is their grotesquerie, nor thrusts us so close that we can not view them critically. In this age of "free-form" commonplaces and conventionalized alienation, Little Murders relies on a definite narrative structure and the wish of its characters "to belong" to move its audiences. Absurdist works make apparent the terror of normality, and delineate human limitations. Little Murders recognizes the tenacity of the human spirit, and how it attempts to make sense out of massive social and technological adversaries: street gangs, the electric company, the police force. The incidents portrayed are terrifying...