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Dark-eyed Phil and blonde Vinca have been seaside pals on the Brittany coast through all their childhood summers. This summer some nameless tension clouds their carefree camaraderie. On their shrimping and crab-hunting forays, Phil turns broody, Vinca coquettishly skittish. Both erupt in inane little squabbles, shy away from the budding hints of their physical and psychological otherness. By the time they are ready to let the troubling word "love" cross their lips, they decide with childlike gravity that love is for grownups and that they are star-crossed by their years...
...name "Rowbottom," used exclusively for the student riots which erupt at the University of Pennsylvania about this season of the year, was given them (not willingly) by a Penn student of the Class...
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
...management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New Dealing Louisville Courier-Journal: "Strikes which lose millions of dollars for all concerned, which erupt into violence and bloodshed . . . cannot be left to the mercies of 'voluntarism...
...sign outside his office: WOMEN FORBIDDEN. Yet Diem is also- indulgent and demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...