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...their produce unless they can present the proper export permits - which the Spanish veguer refuses to sign. Blocked off from their main source of food, Andorrans shiver at the thought of the approaching winter, when for five months snow will make the mountain passes into France all but impenetrable. "Monsieur," mutters the French veguer, "this could be another Berlin...
...linemen left. The teacher shortage is so desperate that there is doubt that the schools will be able to open in the fall, and the equally severe scarcity of doctors has raised the fear of epidemics. "You ask what is working in Algeria," said a young Provisional Government official. "Monsieur, I can tell you that if anything works it is a miracle...
that Jack Davidson looks too young for Monsieur and was not entirely in command of his lines at the opening, since he stepped in on short notice for an ailing actor. His yellow-plumed cap and his baldric and sword underscore the dolt's infatuation with the prerogatives of nobility; and it is quite in keeping with his character that he punctuates his talk by garbling an irrelevant Latin proverb (not in the text). Since the croupe has four men and four women, Dandin's sleepy valet Colin has been turned into a maidservant, Collette, with no detriment, thanks...
They bought up as many small electrical companies as they could, poured 10% of earnings into research and set out to sell to industry, the government, and to the French consumer - who is fondly referred to as "Monsieur Tout-le-monde" (Mr. Average Man). But its forced growth came close to being fatal. When the French government suddenly cut back military orders as a deflationary move, Thomson found itself overexpanded. Control of the new acquisitions was so loose that the result, recalls one Thomson executive, was "anarchy...
...strong support, is not a mark of greatness; it is, rather, an indication that technical or stylistic innovations have been strikingly exploited, or that an extreme statement has been made. Citizen Kane and L'Avventura, a classic and a mediocre trump-up, fall into the first category. Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Stanley Kramer's new work fall into the latter...