Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began to match terror with terror. Ben Khedda escaped a Massu dragnet by ducking down a manhole and dodging his way through the city's sewers. Shared Risks. Ben Khedda believed that...
...paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip on western Massachusetts. And always there was a recurrent theme: "Our kitchen used to be the place where some of the boys would meet, and my father would say: 'All right, now we'll get the signatures.' It was organizational politics, signatures on petitions, door-to-door canvassing...
...sometimes as a messy menage a trois with Philip's mistress, they live the sweet life in the pleasure pots of southern Italy. But all is not pleasure in the parasite's paradise. Philip (Maurice Ronet) uses Tom (Alain Delon) to run small errands, keeps a firm grip on the purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets him adrift in a dinghy on the open sea. Rescued on the verge of sunstroke, Tom puts his vicious little mind to work on a vicious little scheme to get rid of Philip...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtroom by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...