Word: bereted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film job was tempting. "So many African pictures are being made these days that this film company wanted to hire a full-time native artist. I was young and romantic and I could see myself with beret and cigar, you know...
...from Algeria to become police prefect of Paris: "Use your clubs! Use your clubs!" His men complied. In the Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into the Seine!", the rightists made a wild rush for the Concorde bridge leading...
Through such spectacular stunts, bearbaiting, beret-topped Newsman Jämsä (pronounced Yamsa) has got the stories that have helped the picture weekly Apu to achieve the largest magazine circulation (230,000) in Finland. In the course of his reporting chores, Jämsä has charmed a cobra, parachuted from 13,000 ft., tamed a lion, dived in a frogman's gear to a dangerous depth of 200 ft., and was stopped only by open water in an attempt to ski across the Baltic Sea from Finland to Sweden. Other Jämsä stunts...
...Pigalle, a sex-and-sob drama about a priest in plain clothes battling for the soul of a streetwalker. Many a homeward-bound member of the audience, hurrying along Montmartre's notorious Place Pigalle just a block from the theater, passed a pipe-puffing Parisian in a beret chatting with a prostitute without realizing that he was the movie's real-life model...
...though having slipped off the current best-dressed list (TIME, Jan. 13), showed signs of trying for a best-tressed roster. Her latest hairdo, displayed as she sat in her limousine at London's Liverpool Street Station, features middle-parted bangs, neatly accented by a red butcher-boy beret...