Word: les
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rivers of the Montaña. One of Belaúnde's major preoccupations is agriculture. He has pushed through the country's first major agrarian reform bill, and it is one of the most sensible in Latin America. Belaúnde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger...
...astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death throes...
...people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses, Le Dialogue des Carmélites, and Moderato Cantabile...
...mountains or ski jumps in Cambridge, the Crimson has less practice than the other teams this season. Nevertheless there has been steady improvement in all events except jumping. The team has succeeded remarkably well in its schizophrenic life of spending half of the week in Lamont and half in les Montagnes...
...accepted the post of commander-in-chief at a time when the battle was already lost. He was brutally dismissed in 1941 on Hitler's orders. He had won the respect and affection of all the French veterans. The decision of the government, denying him a funeral at Les Invalides, has had a disastrous effect on public opinion...