Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utterly crazy that much of the picture's charm is not in its guffaws but in its continuity; the screech of the language seems so utterly preposterous to the untrained ear that we suspect these Italians may be pulling a much bigger joke than we know. According to Casablanca gossip, both of the principals, Maria Fiore and Vincenzo Musolino, are acting professionally for the first time. If so, they could have fooled us. Their humor is broad and foreign, but not obscure...
...warmed up on the tarmac of Casablanca's airport. A fleet of black Citroëns prowled determinedly through the French quarters of Casablanca, Rabat, Meknés and Fez picking up passengers for the flight. All through the small hours one morning last week agents of Morocco's new secret police force knocked at door after door and curtly informed sleepy French colons to get dressed; they were to be expelled from Morocco immediately...
...unavoidable problems for the individual in any society, it is unfortunate that i.e. has identified them with specific institutions. Abolishing exams, or even as a logical following, Harvard degrees, will not do away with prestige. If the final clubs were done in, a "polished" set would develop at the Casablanca, discomfiting the artist and the thinker even more that at present. After all, there isn't room for all the white shoes at Princeton...
...control of the present Brattle Theater, rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide a social center for Harvard and Radcliffe. The older part of the building had been a Lutheran church for many years. And the present location of the art gallery and of the Club Casablanca was used occasionally as a police...
...heat seems to be off now. But it was pretty uncomfortable for a while, what with Cronin's half-empty on Saturday night and the Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...