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...peasant part of the sample was drawn from the cooperative movement in Pakistan, called Camilla. "We discovered that such people modernized faster, according to our modernization test," he said. "This seems to me to be quite a testimonial to the cooperative movement...
...diabolical about him. He has razor-slit eyes, a maniacal cackle, and the toothy grin of a cougar at feeding time. Above all, in the role of the flip, fearless roue, he exudes a musky eau de Coburn that women find exhilarating. "Funky, groovy," is the way Camilla Sparv, his co-star in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, describes his appeal; "mysterious" is the verdict of Julie Andrews, who appeared with him in The Americanization of Emily...
...gives him a presence he had lacked before; we understand that Renoir is showing a man in a state of grace, speaking the beliefs that have made him feel an integral part of humanity. In a different sense, a similar climax is attained in The Golden Coach (1953) when Camilla (Anna Magnani rejects her three lovers, knowing that she expresses herself totally only through the theatre...
...life. Though we initially question the individuality of people who happily exist as part of the order of Danglar's universe. Renoir knows that commitment to life on a huge scale is not important; Danglar's life style is grander, more imposing, but the dancers (like Camilla) find life's deepest, most joyful, meaning for themselves through dancing. Nini allows Danglar to leave her, abandons a rich lover and an ex-fiance, choosing the Cancan, not men, as the truest means of self-expression...
...Your statement that Michael Caine's latest bird, Camilla Sparv [Feb. 3], is a rura avis is in need of amplification. Sparv is the Swedish word for the ubiquitous sparrow, if anything an avis communis...