Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Fitzgerald and Benjamin out, Mark Mullin and Ralph Perry will carry the Crimson's faint hopes today. Mullin ran a good 25:41 for five miles in taking sixth against Yale and Princeton last week, but he must do even better to figure in the Heps. The steady Perry finished eighth a week ago, and he will probably show up among the top dozen finishers again this afternoon...
...girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine ego. He covets...
While Mon Petit may play with reality, the audience remains aware that this is fiction, even surrealistic fiction. To heighten this effect, Kautner limits his palette so that orange (the oranges), black (the sophisticates), white (our boy and girl), and grey (the edifices of Paris) predominate. And, of course, the characters seem too attractive to be realistic. Horst Bucholz especially stands out as a sort of Jimmy Dean for the quality trade...
...fault is to be found, it lies in the rather contrived climax. But even this mars Mon Petit only superficially...
...latest speech, said, "These are times to try men's souls... I am not a candidate... The President deserves our heartiest congratulations.... New York is a Summer Festival..." Press Secretary Hagerty denied categorically that General Motors had split the cost 50-50. Pogo sagely remarked, "But I ain't even seen the other side of Pogofenokee, yet." Governor Faubus has ordered the back of the Little Rock State House rebuilt...