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Three or 20,000. On that first Sunday there was a bad moment for the insurgents when General Maurice Challe issued a tough communique: "I am bringing troops from the interior . . . All meetings of more than three people are forbidden." But it soon became clear that if a meeting of three people was illegal, a crowd of 20,000 was unstoppable. Next day the hastily built and ill-manned barricades were surrounded by crack regiments of paratroops and Foreign Legionnaires. But the paratroops in their red and green berets merely patrolled, did nothing to interfere with well-wishers who brought...
...them to style themselves ophthalmologists (which few patients can spell or pronounce). The man who made corrective lenses was an optician. An intermediate group developed, called doctors of optometry, who often did the eye measurement (refraction) on which the prescription was based. Opticians can still grind lenses but are forbidden to do the refraction...
...Priests in Rome, including temporary residents and tourists, must wear cassocks and round-brimmed hats, a provision that until now has not affected priests in Rome from many countries, including the U.S. and Mexico. They are forbidden to smoke in public or attend movies, sports events, or any public spectacles except those specifically approved by the church...
...where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view, of course, the convent's dedicated Christians are "puppets worshiping their own strings." What weakens I Will Not Serve is Sylvie's own knowledge that all she really wants of life is forbidden love. Failing to receive it on her terms, she is acute enough to know that her real adversary is God, and that he has won. Out on the street with a hangover and half a packet of dope to reinforce her vision, she plays bullfighter, passes her cape over...
...knows himself to be, the swoops of a hyperbolic plot hardly matter. What is the man doing off the coast of South West Africa in a vessel fitted out as a lowly trawler, but bearing high-speed engines in the hull of a yacht? The shoreline he approaches is forbidden, diamond-rich territory; is Peace after contraband...