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Loosely shaped like a musical sans songs, and almost sans plot, the film plunges headlong into the life and loves of Angela (Anna Karina), a Parisian stripteaser who shares her room at the top with a bicycle racer (Jean-Claude Brialy). Their relationship has obviously been built on the flimsiest of foundations-too many Hollywood double features. One day Angela announces: "I think I'm alive." Suddenly she wants to have a baby, but the bicycle rider does not share her idée fixe...
...Russia with the subsequent appearance of Soviet "trawlers" near a top secret NATO sea exercise in the Atlantic. Taylor's admission was enough to get Clough off the hook, but his testimony also shed a curious light on a Fleet Street reporter's ability to treat the flimsiest of conjectures as fact...
Sudanese officials have cracked down on missionaries on the flimsiest of excuses. Priests and brothers have been fined or jailed for "illegally" administering medicine to the sick, or admitting orphans to mission compounds. Missionaries are forbidden to conduct services outside their churches, must get written permission from local authorities before leaving their communities. They may not build new chapels; nor may they baptize children under 18 without getting parents' consent...
...exercise his imagination in reverse. Instead of forecasting the farout future, he re-created the long-lost past. From a few hunks of bones he built dinosaurs. In the ashes of ancient camp fires he saw the life story of extinct societies. He re-created primitive artifacts from the flimsiest shards. Today, says...
...weeks since the followers of ex-Dictator Juan D. Perón scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron...