Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after waiting for heads to cool, King Mohammed announced that Si Bekkai's replacement would be Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej, 49, a suave and moderate Cairo-and Sorbonne-educated lawyer. He belongs to the Istiqlal, and so does every member of the new government except for one Jew, who represents the Jewish community. Full of their new power, the Istiqlal seemed bent on proving the accusations against them. "Those who conspire against the unity and security of the nation," rumbled the Istiqlal daily Al Alam, "as well as those who cooperated in the past with foreign hands...
Lucky Gambles? Many Hollywoodians regard Benjamin and Krim as merely cool and lucky gamblers. But they are much more than that. They have a keen artistic sense, will not agree to finance a movie and distribute it unless the "package'' is right; i.e., the script, stars, producer and director all fit together. They read 50 to 60 scripts a week, back their artistic judgment with two of the shrewdest business brains in moviemaking...
...princely rogue (Richard Todd), his manner as cool as the Lagonda he drives, enters the villa and announces that he is her brother. He sports the right tattoo, recites her favorite rhyme, even knows how to mix the apéritif she guzzles before a swim. When she calls a friendly, reliable old uncle (Alexander Knox) to denounce the rascal, uncle celebrates his nephew's reincarnation. Then a couple of creepy, creeping servants jangle her nerves even more. Who is the hero? Is it the sad-mouthed police comisario (Herbert Lorn) who lurks in the shadows? Is there...
...archrivals it is barely a step from the wet cobblestones of the town that Joe dares not name to the even more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...
Miss Jackson carries off all this in a cool manner: the irony manner gets out of hand. If the novel, a short one by all odds, seems at times on the long side, this is because she is carefully shading her characters and needs space to do so. The book doesn't seem to have any compelling or original themes that have not popped up in high-class escape writing before; but as a tightly and incisively constructed piece, worthy of a goodly bit of concentration, it rates very well indeed...