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...that gray November day just a year ago when thousands of people lined the streets of the tiny village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises to pay homage to the French President, soldiers prevented all but the official funeral procession from following the body to the cemetery. As Galante recounts it, an old peasant woman began to cry out: "He said everyone could be here! He said everyone!" Malraux stopped and took her by the arm. "Let her through," he said to one of the soldiers lining the road. "She speaks for France." The soldier stepped aside...
...that the French traditionally employ to sniff out the ripened tubers. Said one expert: "It only takes about three weeks to train no matter what kind of dog, and a dog is a lot easier to move around with. Getting a 450-lb. pig in and out of a Deux Chevaux is an unnecessary bother...
Dramatic Lifts. Making use of Marcia, and a handful of other new, young ballerinas, Cranko's productions are always attractive, marked by passionate pas de deux and dramatic, sometimes almost traumatic lifts. His choreography is far less inventive than it seems at first. But he has few peers at encouraging and developing talent, or in lending dancers the confidence to try new things. The company lacks the Royal London Ballet's palatial size and majesty. It cannot match the Bolshoi's disciplined depth and classical perfection. Yet in versatility and crowd-pleasing dramatic power, Stuttgart...
...conversation at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises more often resembled two monologues than a dialogue. Some of De Gaulle's more telling ruminations and barbs, as reported by Malraux:-"People want history to resemble them or at least to resemble their dreams. Happily, they sometimes have great dreams...
Some of the faults afflict The Andromeda Strain, a bigger, better-league movie. Micheal Crichton's novel posed the conumdrum: What would happen if a space-probe satellite returned to earth carrying a malignant? The solution it offered was disquieting. The film is a faithful replica complete with deux ex machinations...