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...Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that he would gladly carry a banner down the Champs-Elysées if he thought it would help stop the tests...
...recent Sunday, a Honolulu matron answered the door of her stately home to find three Japanese businessmen who offered her $300,000 for it on the spot; they wanted it as a vacation center for their Hiroshima workers. When she refused, the group's spokesman replied: "Ah, I understand. The $300,000 was merely for the house. The grounds we can discuss later." Similar, if less startling, offers are being made all over Hawaii these days as Japanese businessmen step up their efforts to buy control of hotels, shops, travel agencies, land and private estates...
EMERSON HALL 210, Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour...
EMERSON 210: Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, May 2, 3, 9, $1, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour. One of the earliest and most important films of the French New Wave. Alain Resnais's film begins with a French actress who falls in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima. The associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory and time. Emmanuele Riva brings forth a tremendous range of emotion, which is very evocative even on a first viewing, before subtle complexities begin to fall into place...