Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Knowledge of Folly. For the free world, the settlement legitimized a crushing defeat already suffered. Through spirited bargaining, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France kept his hold on a few degrees of latitude across Viet Nam's waist, won a few extra months of respite for free Viet Nam. But these were no more than bargaining old bones, tossed to the West by the Communists to get a deal. If the Reds swallowed only part of Viet Nam now, they could afford to wait for the rest. By the swapping of a few parallels...
...hopeless odds." Toward evening Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had been conspicuously silent, proposed that all agree to a limitation of debate. Characteristically, Morse objected. Nevertheless, with Johnson telling his Democrats that it was time to show some sense of responsibility, the filibustered were not likely to hold out much longer. Bill Knowland, clearly frazzled but somewhat encouraged, decided to let the Senators take Sunday...
...please pout. He is the military aristocrat to the last shoe button, going a fair piece down Swann's Way with no illusions-an intelligent, very French, clearly self-knowing performance. As the countess, Darrieux nicely achieves an odd mix of innocence, flirtiness, and neurasthenia, but cannot quite hold her own with the competition...
...even Boyer, in fact, quite hold the stage with De Sica. Although De Sica is 53, Ophuls had the eye to see him as a lover-and a lover of devastating charm he makes. De Sica conveys the sense of a man old enough to know what he really wants of a woman, still young enough to get it, and, most exciting of all, strong enough to say no when he has had enough...
Guinéo the boy and Manidou the shark are pals. They take off daily for long ocean spins, the boy riding easily by keeping tight hold of the shark's lateral fin. Guinéo likes to feed his voracious playmate, especially with human tidbits. By pretending to be helpless far offshore, he sometimes attracts a rescuing fisherman, whose extended arms are nipped off by the waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking...