Word: interior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprisoned. When members of the French SDECE began questioning Martel, they were startled by his claims. He said that 1) he had "information pointing to" the presence of a Soviet spy among De Gaulle's closest advisers; 2) at least five French agencies, including the ministries of the Interior, Defense and Foreign Affairs, were infiltrated by espionage agents; 3) a spy nest known to the Russians as "Sapphire" operated freely inside SDECE itself; and 4) KGB agents could deliver any NATO secret from Paris to Moscow within three days...
...anxious to fight the bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome last November to look into the causes of banditry. Italian Interior Minister Paolo Taviani, who paid a hurried visit to the island this month, reported that the only cure for banditry is "massive industrialization" and "a radical transformation of the island's pastoral mentality." If that is so, it may take the Sardinians at least another generation to rid their...
...Interior Arrangements. The film opens with a slow, evocative long shot of an open coach moving through the autumn leaves along the driveway of an estate. In the back sits Severine (Catherine Deneuve) and her husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). They exchange affectionate pleasantries. Abruptly he orders the landau stopped; the coachman and footman drag Severine screaming through the woods, strip her half-naked, string her up to a tree and whip her. Suddenly the scene shifts and she is in her bed, chaste and composed. "What are you thinking about?" asks Pierre. "About us," she says. "We were...
...first of the Asian immigrants, indentured laborers on the Uganda Railway, were followed by thousands of enterprising countrymen, who became traders, clerks, and accountants, and who boosted East Africa's fledgling economy by penetrating the interior with their box-like "duka" shops. Under British control they occupied middle-level administrative jobs and monopolized many areas in trade and commerce...
There is also occasional humor: Sellers trying to retrieve his shoe from his host's elaborate system of interior fountains and waterways; Sellers drifting from group to group, making inscrutable attempts at conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...