Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of a young author. The title story tells of a love affair between young Negroes in the dreariest and poorest part of a southern state, where the main recreations are boozing and fighting. Against this squalid background the affair has first the quality of a simple idyl, but after its bloody, tragic ending it takes on the shape of legend. In Joshua, which takes place during World War II, an imaginative Negro youngster proves his courage by doing what the Bayou fishermen, including his father, do not dare do: he paddles down to the Gulf where surfaced German subs...
...alas for Adam's vegetable idyl! The villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...
...Brando was holed up in Italy trying to escape the "persecution" of newsmen, his fiancée, onetime Artists' Model Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, just before taking off from Paris for New York, submitted to some persecution and sounded a trifle hazy about the direction their idyl will now take. "I know I am going to start a new life with the help of Marlon, and it will be different from what I have done so far," burbled she. "I hope to be in my first movie along with Marlon. We are supposed to be married around next June...
Madame and her girls have gone to the country to attend the first Communion of Madame's little niece. The country idyl is charmingly done, with the girls on their best behavior, the villagers impressed by the glamorous visitors from the city, and Madame Tellier (Madeleine Renaud) exhibiting a happy mixture of practicality and sentiment. Jean Gabin, as a shrewd but lovelorn peasant, and Danielle Darrieux, who cries with as much facility as she loves, keeps things going forward. But. like most weekends in the country, this one tends to drag a little on Sunday afternoon...
...soldiers were resented as pocket-jingling conquerors. The play tells in particular of a G.I. and an Italian girl (Leo Penn and Betty Miller) who come together because he is lonely and she is hungry, and share a room pretending to be husband and wife. Theirs is no wartime idyl; the girl loathes her role and denounces the man with a full G.I. bill of wrongs. He-decent, perplexed, finally irritated-cannot mend matters...