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Beys, with deliciously self-mocking wit, explained that the council must vote itself more money, because that was the will of the students. He cited a curious survey, supposedly conducted long ago ("last year) to confirm his premonitions as vox populi...
...recommend that he be put to death. Meanwhile, television viewers are tuning into interviews with Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee cannibal who dismembered 17 young men, and with David ("Son of Sam") Berkowitz, the lovers' lane stalker who shot and killed six men and women in New York City. The curious can call 1-900-622-GACY to listen, for $1.99 a minute, to John Wayne Gacy argue against his death sentence, which is due to be carried out in May. The Chicago contractor, who killed 33 young men and buried many under his house, explains that he "really...
Like many Western governments, France was curious about the exact state of Leonid Brezhnev's health during his final years. Marenches found an ingenious way to get information. "He was staying at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit," the count recalls. "Our people rented the suite under his and dismantled all the plumbing. They intercepted his toilet flushings and sent the samples to Paris for analysis." This unpleasant bit of trade craft revealed that Brezhnev, a vodka lover, had suffered severe liver damage. "The old boy didn't last long after that," says the count, raising...
Next was a brisk tempo 50's tune, "Janine," followed by a Williams piano solo. This solo number was Williams' chance to express himself, without the flashiness of the horns, especially Boddy Watson, to crowd him out. What Williams offered was very beautiful, if curious. He played an old gospel tune, interspersing pop harmonies with lots of polychords reminiscent of Keith Jarrett's style...
Truffaut ends this introductory section of the film with a curious episode. Jules and Jim visit Albert (Boris Bassiak), an artist friend who shows them a slide of a sculpture of a woman found on an island in the Mediterranean. Inexplicably, Jules and Jim are captivated by the woman's enigmatic face, so much so that they travel to the island to see it in person...