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...Ethiopia, famine in Welo and Tigre provinces left nearly 100,000 dead last year; some people were so weakened that when a rainstorm struck Dese, the capital of Welo, they drowned in a couple of inches of water, unable to raise their heads from the gutter. Now the drought is expanding into other areas. In Harar province's Danakil Desert, the nomadic tribesmen are in danger of dying out as a race. Carcasses of their cattle, sheep, goats and camels litter the desert; the surviving animals are so scrawny that cows, once worth $60 in the marketplace...
...Republican Party, ran the campaign, claiming they would "get politics the hell out of the White House and across the street" (Little did they know the irony of this statement--that the politics would not make it all the way across, and would end up in the gutter...
What a life Singer Edith Piaf had! Born in the gutter, lived awhile in a cousin's whorehouse, discovered on a street corner. What a role to play! Brigitte Ariel, 19, a little-known French actress who has played mainly with provincial companies, was chosen for the film version of the bestselling biography by Simone Berteaut, the "Little Sparrow's" half sister. Brigitte, who was nine when Piaf died in 1963, has little in common with the megaphone-voiced singer except her height (4 ft. 11 in.). The songs will be dubbed in. About the part, Brigitte says...
...adults who might be offended? When a Los Angeles plain-clothes policeman walked into a store and asked about "sexy books," the store's proprietor, Murray Kaplan, answered: "All our books are sexy." Kaplan was duly arrested and convicted for selling the policeman a book that "in vulgar, gutter language ... instructed on an act of oral copulation." Kaplan and the defendants in two similar cases (another bookstore, a movie theater proclaiming ADULTS ONLY) argue that if an adult is permitted to have pornography in private, they should be able to sell it as long as they provide clear warnings...
...story is too traditionally Truffaut -- a confrontation of innocence (equated with intellect) and brazen, vulgar ignorance that becomes a gutter sophistication. The ending, with Camille's inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript...