Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedless Bedlam. Mexican Ambassador Primo Villa Michel had never troubled to hide his sympathy for the Red-lining old regime. As a reward, his midtown embassy got 416 of the new refugees. The building is a high-ceilinged old house of 20 offices and rooms but without grounds or garden. Together with a hastily rented house next door, it soon took on the look of an 18th century slave ship. Asylum seekers, including 60 squalling babies, sprawled on mattresses spread in halls, offices and reception rooms. There was no privacy; on the stairs, people slept, read, quarreled or flirted, oblivious...
Ambassador Villa Michel chivalrously gave his own bedroom to Arbenz, who fell off the wagon and went on a thundering three-day bender, after which a doctor straightened him out with glucose injections. Former Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello visited the ex-President from time to time, but most of the other inmates never saw him. Jose Manuel Fortuny, No. I Communist and longtime Arbenz adviser, had an urgent personal problem: his wife was at the point of giving birth. The former Health Minister, also in asylum, delivered the baby, a boy, whom Fortuny gratefully saddled with the name Cuauht...
Story from the Hospital. About 15 hours later, the wounded were resting in Hanoi's military hospital, and three men were well enough to tell Dienbienphu's last story."It seemed as though thousands of shells were striking our hospital bunker," said Private Michel Champougny."One shell exploded right inside another bunker, and the wounded were buried alive. Outside we could hear the screaming of the Viet Minh and the answering shouts of the French. Everyone was fighting, hand to hand. But around 6 p.m. there was silence, and we knew the battle was over...
...Michel, a young French archeologist, is about to leave for North Africa, a young girl with whom he has grown up confesses her love. Fond of her and desperately hoping, he marries Marcelline; but North Africa, where homosexuality is rife, quickly complicates rather than resolves their problem. Michel succumbs, while the anguished, wholly disillusioned and half-deserted Marcelline takes to drink. Finding she is pregnant, she leaves Michel and goes back to France. He follows her there, and partly because of their coming child, partly because they are both so lost, they decide to remain together, clutching wildly...
...play remains, however, an effective formulation. As Michel, Cinemactor Louis Jourdan is excellent throughout; as Marcelline, Geraldine (Midsummer) Page is uneven but has excellent moments...