Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of the backwash of war: only far-off conflagrations are hinted at after the opening sequence. But for all its symbolic overtones, it is no stiff, self-conscious allegory. It has a biting vitality and, at times, a macabre humor. The direction of René Clément, who adapted the story from François Boyer's 1950 novel Jeux Interdits, is as exact as a machine; it also has a brooding, dreamlike quality. Making their debuts as the two juvenile leads, blonde, fragile Brigitte Fossey and sturdy little Georges Poujouly are small, haunting figures, moving through...
...What are the guys going to think about me?' he asked in pained wonder ment. 'The only B.A.R. in the whole outfit to protect them, and I couldn't see to fire it. I feel like a heel...
Harrison's basic idea for the U.N. was a simple one. "When we started U.N.," he says, "we were not trying to make a monu ment. We were building a workshop - a workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn we could...
...such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic assort ment of sheiks and shebas...
...that bruising taxes have crippled old-style philanthropy, the council has be come a permanent agency with ?575,000 a year to spend on the judicious encourage ment of art, music, ballet and the theater...