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...Winthrop House’s annual “Debauchery.” By 11:30 p.m., people are already being turned away from the door, including Benjamin M. Kultgen ’08 and his friends. “This is setting a new standard for Harvard gestapo-ism,” yells Kultgen. Is he drunk? “No,” insists Kultgen. “He’s only had ten shots,” adds a friend. Others who waited to buy tickets were also disappointed. By 10 p.m., 600 tickets had been...
...years before World War II and Iraq today. Peterson sees the political figures loyal to Sadr deftly taking advantage of weaknesses in a nascent parliamentary system. Meanwhile, henchmen exert power on the streets through terror that comes with a brand name and a famous face. "You did have the Gestapo in there," Peterson says of the Nazis. "And if I look at the JAM, that's what they got going on right...
...going to have to look for this movie in the fine print of the art-house listings, but it is well worth the effort - mostly for what the movie does not do. Chief among its reluctances is killing Germans. Exactly one of them, a hapless guard at the Paris Gestapo headquarters, is murdered by Philippe (the great Lino Ventura) as he makes his escape from his would-be torturers. For the rest of the picture he runs a little band of underground fighters who are mainly preoccupied with their own security. You never see them blowing up a train...
...logical successor to Jean Gabin, another great screen actor whom the camera never catches acting. He just triumphantly is, a large, taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer. Forced by the Gestapo to play a deadly little game - a group of prisoners is given a running head start before the machine guns are fired, their reward being a delayed execution if they?re not hit - he at first refuses to run. What?s the point, he asks in voice over? He?s no more afraid...
...that very many people objected to flushing out Communists ... But it was a suspicion that any such collection was bound to damn the innocent as well as the guilty ... In a nation where nobody loves a cop ... the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo? ... As long as the U.S. felt the need to keep G-man Hoover checking up on its fellow citizens, the uneasy feeling was bound to persist. But without the assurance of the FBI's eternal vigilance, the U.S. might feel uneasier still...