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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casablanca [1942]. What can you say that's new about Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains, except maybe that Rains is actually a deus ex machina at the end and that you should read the short story, "Sodom and Gomorrah," by Richard Berczeller in the October 14 issue of the New Yorker about Michael Curtiz, the film's director...

Author: By Lester F. Greenspoon, | Title: TELEVISION | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

...Genius. Churchill, Patton wrote after meeting him at Casablanca, "speaks the worst French I have ever heard, his eyes run, and he is not at all impressive." Montgomery, he thought, "was small, wonderfully conceited and the best soldier in this war." Harry Hopkins "was like a pilot fish for a shark [F.D.R.]," and King George "is just a grade above a moron, poor little fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gorgeous George | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...REAL difference between the two traditions and their corresponding contemporary mentalities becomes apparent not in the seminar room, nor in the dining hall or common room. The contrast between the realists and the romantics becomes most evident in the movie theater, where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Don Juan in Law School | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

...Casablanca...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Casablanca, or the Casa-B for the cognoscenti, is a two-story affair in the back of the Truc building on Brattle St. The downstairs has a fine stretch of mahogany for those who would bend elbows, lots of tables for those who would have conversations, and even wicker love-seats for those who would woo. It's dark here, smoke gets in your eyes, and multitudes of humanity flock here to get glued to the rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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