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...been in prison (14 years in all) or in exile. The rest of the time he lurked in a shadowy, hotly pursued underground movement. Even so, Alvaro Cunhal, 61, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party, is surprisingly well known. A brilliant lawyer with blazing black eyes and a mane of thick silver hair, he returned from Eastern Europe to a tumultuous red-banner welcome only a few days after the April 1974 revolution that toppled the old right-wing dictatorship. Since then, with his debonair good looks, smooth manner and legendary reputation as a dedicated Communist opponent...
Looking at France's Maurice Andre, 41, one might guess that he possesses the puff but hardly the poetry to be the reigning prince of Baroque trumpet music. Standing 5 ft. 7 in., weighing in at 220 Ibs., shaggy of mane, void of visible intellectuality, he looks like a Paris taxi driver who has just won the Irish Sweepstakes. He bubbles. He bounces. He loves American beer. Above all, he credits his eminence in a rarified field not necessarily to years of scholarship, not to a preternatural kinship with the shades of Telemann and Tartini, but to the four...
...between two Christs. Quite a cheerful robber, though. On Hemingway:...I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls, bulls, and loathed, it. Comparing youthful expectations with elderly realities: At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald. On his position "in the world of letters:" Jolly good view from up here...
...trem bling hands. In this one motion, Ozu transforms a figure of faintly pathetic fun into a truly tragic individual. It is one measure of the richness of this al together remarkable film that Ozu is able to show such scenes without the slightest sentimentality, and with a hu mane and unique dignity...
...WOMAN, My mane is Nang--, Xieng Khouang has been my families' home since the time of my ancestors... There was danger as the war came closer, like the sound of bombs or shells or the airplanes which constantly made a terrible noise in the sky and led me to be terribly, terribly afraid of dying. AT that time, our lives became like those of animals desperately trying to escape their hunters...