Word: embers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script tries hard to play it fast and Loos, Jane and Jeanne, a couple of nightclub singers, take their act to Paris, where they are met by Scott Brady and Alan Young, two young men about down, and by Rudy Vallee, a fading ember who knew the girls when they were their own mothers-or so it looks in the flashbacks. For a while everybody vaguely engages in dialogue ("Allons, enfants! let's go cher-cher les dames!"), and then off on a CinemaScope tour of Paris...
...Adam Ember is a common soldier in a nameless army. Hill 317 is a hopeless position in a strategy never understood. The landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that...
...When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge...
...production for export to a diversified economy based on production for domestic use. The pattern of Brazil's economic past is a series of wonderful one-product export booms, invariably followed by abysmal busts. First came a 16th century boom in a red dyewood called pau-braza (literally, ember wood), which gave Brazil its name. In the 17th century Brazil became for a time the world's greatest exporter of sugar. Then came the gold rush; while it lasted, Brazil produced more than 40% of all the gold mined in the 18th century. The advent of the automotive...
...life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...