Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color feeds the senses and cloys the mind, and this is not a poem of sensuousness, but of sensibility. There is something approaching, if not quite achieving, absolute depth of focus. There is no pageantry and no ornament; the great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers, against his sounding boards...
Anxious Greeting. Back in Oudjda the local Pasha, 4O-year-old Si Mohamed el Hadjoui, publicly rebuked the Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...
...down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick, but he is netting more from wrestling (he says he makes $120,000 a year) than he ever did as world's heavyweight boxing champion...
...cigarettes (which sell for 30^ to 40^ a package) come in by the carload. Nylons lie deep on department-store shelves. The newest Parker pens are fast sellers at most stationers. In old Juarez, some storekeepers are well stocked with U.S. tinned goods carried across the international bridge from El Paso, a few pounds at a time, by "carrier rats"-troops of black-shawled old women...
...captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over. The brigadier was killed. Said Farran, who was unscathed: "I contemplated suicide...