Word: forbin
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...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...
...second sister, generally considered the most likable of the Bonapartes, was a nymphomaniac who, according to Stacton's account, "treated men as she treated clothes: if she did not like them, she wore them only once; if she did, she wore them out." In Auguste de Forbin, a society painter "endowed with a usable gigantism," she found a man who wore her out. To the horror of her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese, she went through money even faster than men, but she always found cash when Big Brother needed it. Were she and Napoleon lovers? Several members...
...battleship Lorraine; more recent cruisers Suffren, Tourville, Duquesne, Duguay-Trouin; destroyers Basque, Le Fortune, Forbin ; one submarine...
...Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands, several persons convicted of selling information about ship movements and defense works to one or other of the warring powers were sentenced last week as spies. Last fortnight, the French destroyer Forbin dramatically overhauled the Portuguese steamer Lima off Lisbon to lay hands on one Lola Schroeter, 20, wanted in Paris on spy charges. But World War II's greatest spy hunt was under way last week in Great Britain, pressed by Scotland Yard, the Army and Navy intelligence services and a special division of the Home Office...