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...good place to take guests to whom one has nothing to say. Last month Warner extended the yellow brick road to Central Park. There he has opened a $2.5 million gustatorial pleasuredome that may in time rival its long-running Parisian counterpart, the Grande Cascade in the Bois de Bou logne. It is called the Tavern on the Green, but it bears as much resemblance to the 42-year-old landmark of that name as La Belle Sole de la Manche Meunière does to cheeseburgers (both delicacies will be available at the revivified Tavern...
...tell your children you saw the great John Dillinger," he says. We don't see that greatness; the actor develops no aura. The action of the film never creates a legend. We don't find out why everyone loved Dillinger and loathed Bonnie and Clyde, as Pretty Bou Floyd mentions to Dillinger in the film. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were certainly as attractive as Warren Oates' portrayal of Dillinger. What made Dillinger so great...
...slabs, used to anchor bridges, were hurled downstream. An irrigation project that took two years and $7,000,000 to construct was washed away in six hours. As late as last week the Mediterranean was still an oozing ochre sore from the Gulf of Tunis to the Gulf of Bou Grara because of topsoil washed into the sea by the boiling rivers...
...exited from the courtroom in a rain of spring flowers, the crowd shouted, "We're with you, Irina!" When one furious KGB guard stomped on a bou quet, a girl friend of Irina's grabbed it and struck the secret policeman on the head with the flowers. After a scuffle, Irina was spirited off to prison in a truck that looked like a bread-delivery wagon. Russian spectators recalled a sim ilar scene in the last chapter of Al exander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, when the hero, Gleb Nerzhin, is carried off to a Stalinist...
Emerging from his weekly Cabinet meeting in Algiers' Palais du Gouvernement, Algerian President Houari Bou-mediene climbed into his black Citroën to go to lunch with Minister of State Rabat Bitat. As the car began to roll down the Esplanade de 1'Afrique, a child stepped forward with a petition...