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...while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...
...Gaulle's response was a characteristic blend of symbolism and political savvy. It was in Brazzaville, far back in January 1944, that the general made his famed declaration, radical in French terms, that ultimately France's African subjects must be brought "to the level where they are able to participate in the direction of their own affairs." Now, hailing the city as a "historic place" for France, De Gaulle made a second Brazzaville declaration. Its gist: though a no vote on the constitution would exclude a territory from the French community, a yes vote would not bind...
...Arab resolution-described by Mahgoub as a step toward "human perfection, peace and security"-was a shrewd blend of the earlier Norwegian resolution and of the plan for a Middle East settlement outlined by Dag Hammarskjold at the opening meeting of the emergency session (TIME, Aug. 18). It proclaimed that the Assembly...
Writer Le Chanois has found the best possible formula for quieting objections to his frankly polemic theme: natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple tale, Old Pro Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain...
...single year has come out of nowhere and made a huge hit of a special kind of entertainment. What Paar brings into American living rooms five nights a week is both more and less than a comedy, variety or chatter show - it is a special show business blend that Paartisans consider uniquely satisfying...