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MORREAU SEEMS INTENT ON sprinkling dark, meaningful images throughout the plot's progress. Radio bulletins and brief conversations about war interrupt the film's flow. And the morose, seductive presence of a Jewish interloper in the village too obviously suggests the eventual fate of his people. The Jew, a young and handsome doctor from Paris, enters everyone's life. He has an affair with Marie's mother and entrances the young Marie. (At least Morreau had the common sense not to let the film become but another variation of the Pretty Baby theme...
...programs come in two kinds, orderly or contentious. CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press let a guest finish a sentence. On ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, questioners interrupt and badger the guest, which works well with facile and thick-skinned politicians, but can be unfair to the reflective. Sometimes these shows make headlines; their real value is to give viewers a sense of public figures they have only read about...
Finally, Habib has a distinctive personal touch that helped move the talks along. Dealing with the loquacious Menachem Begin, Habib would let him run on a while, then interrupt him with a blunt deflator: "Prime Minister, what you're really saying is this . . ." Habib had a different style from Henry Kissinger, whom he assisted during the Middle East shuttles in 1974 that led to the disengagement agreements made by Israel with both Egypt and Syria. "Kissinger," says one Israeli official, "was more of a preacher. He'd lecture us. Habib takes pains to avoid that...
...regarded as the real problems facing the world now. I just couldn't get over thinking of what I was listening to, and then he would stop and say, 'You see that knoll over there? That's where I did this-or-that.' He would interrupt himself, you know. And we just sat there and looked...
...group of protestors, led by Saundra Graham, now a Cambridge City Councilor, seized the stage to interrupt the first joint Harvard-Radcliffe commencement and voice their discontent over Harvard's housing policies. Anderson recalls that he turned off the microphones as soon as he realized what was happening, but it took an off-state negotiating session to continue on schedule Anderson adds that on that "unpleasant and uncivilized day." President Nathan M. Pusey '28 was forced to abridge one portion of the Commencement, granting all of the University's degrees with, a single presentation, rather than by school...