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...Colombey, which has a population of 377 and is 150 miles southeast of Paris, that the cult is most evident. After the funeral last year, the village priest, Father Claude Saugey, said to the mayor: "Well, Monsieur le Maire, we can now go back to our dull, humdrum lives again." Hardly. By some estimates, possibly exaggerated, more than 1,000,000 pilgrims have journeyed to the general's off-white marble grave, where he lies beside his daughter Anne. The people come with flowers and handmade crosses of Lorraine, plaques and crude placards reading "To our leader," "notre grand...
...nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly decides whether the Peking government alone will represent China's nearly 800 million people, or whether Taipei will continue to represent the 14 million people of Taiwan. At Turtle Bay and Westminster alike, the debates were disappointingly humdrum, for no orator proved capable of crafting words to match the moment. Yet, in both places, the mood was expectant and electric...
...other a great deal, then settle down into the kind of edgy friendship that is good for about 15 minutes of running time. Eventually both men are needled by the bloodthirsty townspeople and driven by thier own sense of honor, competition and greed to shoot it out. Instead of humdrum showdown on main Street at high noon Johnny and Kirk decide to go for their guns in a bullring conveniently located at the edge of town. Tickets will be sold, faster gun takes the proceeds. The spectators in the bullring may get a lot for their money, but the movie...
...over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko keeps no office of his own; instead he conducts daily gab sessions at the theater canteen where, over humdrum food and endless cups of coffee, he and his young dancers, drawn from 20 different countries, exchange ideas. The director encourages them to plan their own ways of interpreting his creations...
Things are falling apart for him, and David Holzman's Diary is his way of pinning the humdrum onto celluloid in the hopes of discovering meanings...