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Another debater suggests that ticks, fleas and lice living in the fur of hirsute early man carried epidemic diseases that destroyed whole populations, thus weeding out those carrying the hair gene. So far, no one really knows the answer. Perhaps the change was simply esthetic: bristly bachelors began preferring depilous dames...
Cloportes is French for lice-and slang for the killers, con men, pimps, prostitutes and safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent...
Overnight, thousands of stickers were stuck on the walls of Manhattan's men's rooms: HAVE YOU SEEN FANNY? Po lice found a statue of a nude woman-Fanny's belly dancer-set up in the Poets' Corner in Central Park. "A wealthy Turk" (who hasn't been seen since) informed the press that he wanted to buy the belly dancer from Merrick for $2,000,000 and take her back to Istanbul. TV and radio broke out with a rash of spot commercials selling Fanny, Fanny, Fanny. Logan himself directed scenes from the play that were presented...
...French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
Ninth Circle. When he was not under fire, the U.S. fighting man was enduring living conditions that would have made Dante's ninth circle seem cozy. He was mired in mud when it rained, choked by dust when it did not. There were leeches and lice, poisonous vipers and venereal diseases, dengue, and a virulent strain of malaria that has defied preventives and resists cure. Temperatures hit 130° on the sandy beaches, 20° in the mountains. In the water-filled bunkers of Danang and Phan Rang, marines and paratroopers wrapped themselves in rubberized ponchos to grab...