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That Georges is still on the road at all is something of a surprise. He was the campaign manager for De Gaulle's re-election last December, in which De Gaulle was forced into a humiliating runoff, and even then managed only 55% of the vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government...
...which has been the target of German aggression three times in the past century, is understandably leary of a reunited Germany, as are Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Among Gaullists, the problem has always been pushed to the background or else treated with gallows humor, such as the crack Novelist François Mauriac once made: "I love Germany so much that I want there to be two of her." Yet recently the inevitability of German reunification has become part of the French consciousness. "All will go very slowly," De Gaulle said last month. "Germany itself must evolve...
Director Varda exempts exempts François both from praise and condemnation. She merely accepts his behavior as an inexorable fact of life, and dramatizes it bewitchingly in unforced New Cinema style, using abrupt cuts and soft focus to suggest the spontaneous electricity generated by lovers, repeating one action several times to underscore the emotional impact of a scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman...
...Wels (.400) was named to the first-string infield, along with third-baseman Jim Wood (.341) of B.U. and Fran Riley (.400) and Tom Anderson...
...Wels (.400) was named to the first- infield, along with third-baseman Wood (.341) of B.U. and Fran Riley and Tom Anderson...