Word: frenchwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic...
...shoppers, there was a sharp explosion. When the smoke lifted, there lay underneath a shattered car all that was left of a 16-year-old Moslem who had held on to his grenade too long. Unnoticed among the curious crowd that gathered, a soberly dressed, respectable-looking, middle-aged Frenchwoman quickly bent down and picked up one of the dead terrorist's severed fingers. Putting it in her handbag, she snapped the clasp and slipped away...
There is still hatred in Algeria, but increasingly it is the isolated, furtive exception of the Frenchwoman rather than the general fever that prevailed before De Gaulle stepped in a year ago. Two years ago the explosion in the Rue d'Isly would have brought the paratroopers out in force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage...
...time is proving De Gaulle's greatest ally in Algeria. Faced with increasing military pressure and declining Moslem support, the F.L.N. seems uncertain whether to respond with heightened terrorism or to try political persuasion of its own. With fanfare this week, the rebels released a young Frenchwoman, Marie-José Serio, whose mother had made a direct appeal to the F.L.N.'s sense of humanity. But at the same time, they shot dead a captured Moslem whose sister-in-law, Rebahi Khebtani, is one of the three new Moslem women Deputies in the French Assembly. She was unaware...
...really up to her role, which demands more than the sort of lolitapalooza she invariably plays, but everybody else is excellent. Franco Interlenghi is fierce and touching as the heroine's No. 2 lover. Actress Feuillère, as the wife, subtly interprets a shrewd Frenchwoman who understands what is happening, but cannot make it hurt any less. And Actor Gabin is stonily superb as the cynical old sugar daddy who knows he will have to pay plenty for his last fling, but doesn't really mind. He has the money...