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Blonde, boyish Elizabeth (Nicole Stephane) and ailing, somnambulistic Paul (Edouard Dermithe) live like "two limbs of the same body," isolated from the outside world in an unreal, fabulously disordered "turtle's shell" of a room in a Montmartre apartment. In this chamber, "balanced on the brink of a myth," they play in utter unselfconsciousness a childish-grown-up sort of game: prancing and pluming themselves, idolizing and tormenting each other, cramming themselves gluttonously with a sticky hodgepodge of sensations...
...what might happen if the West German Republic cast its lot with the allies. "The signing of the contractual agreement," blustered East German Premier Otto Grotewohl last month, "will produce in Germany the same conditions that existed in Korea." He added later: "It will bring Germany to the brink of a civil war, and of a new third World...
Britain is on the brink of bankruptcy, but the British people, who have lived so long in peril that they have become inured to crisis, seem the last to realize it. For one thing, the crisis in its present dimensions affects the nation as such, rather than the people as individuals; only later will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis...
...Yale, the batting order will be Sciffion, 2b; Walker, ss; Johnson, if; Mathias, 3b; Guidotti, 1b; Stein, cf; May, rf; Brink, c; Corelli or Davis...
...spill it. Honor among thieves is a phrase as out-dated as the cliche about criminals returning to the scene of the crime. In a few months police will stamp "Unsolved" on the folder of Arnold Schuster and tuck it away in an already bulging file. The Brink's case, the biggest lead on it ignored, will get a similar treatment in Boston. And the syndicates will move...