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...level of the royal bedroom's floorboards. That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes it is the perfect finish to a masterly film, at once superbly intelligent and strangely poignant. He employed the same ironic device in A Special Day (1977), in which Mussolini held a giant rally for Hitler in the background, while Mastroianni and Sophia Loren coped with the quotidian in the foreground. But La Nuit de Varennes is a much richer film. In Day the protagonists virtually ignored the great events moving around them. In Varennes they are relentlessly articulate in expressing...
...Henry alone anticipates the signing of the Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact, which enabled the Germans to launch the war. That prediction brings him to the attention of President Roosevelt, who thenceforth makes him his unofficial confidant and emissary. As F.D.R.'s man on the spot, he meets Churchill, Mussolini and Stalin and is on hand for memorable occasions like the first conference between the President and the Prime Minister, aboard a U.S. warship off the coast of Newfoundland...
During a decade of planning, building and bickering, the $137.7 million Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building has been much denounced as a wasteful, Mussolini-style marble barn. Now that it is essentially completed and ready for occupancy, some Senators have declined to move into it. Wisconsin's William Proxmire and others object that it is too opulent. John Stennis of Mississippi and Charles Mathias of Maryland say they prefer the old-shoe comforts and fireplaces of their present quarters. With most of the Senate leadership setting a good example, however, the marble barn's 50 office suites...
...impropriety. Their naivete is secured through solitude. News of the outside world comes, if at all, as a whisper. The local paper headlines the huge salmon caught, after a three-hour struggle, in a nearby pool, and then mentions in passing: "Allies enter Berlin-Hitler dead in Bunker-Mussolini killed by Partisans." News of atomic bombs over Japan a few months later gives the twins identical nightmares: "That their bed-curtains had caught fire, that their hair was on fire, and their heads burned down to smoldering stumps...
...Roosevelt and Lázaro Cárdenas. In Mexico there were great social changes, but the U.S. Government, without concealing its occasional displeasure, respected those decisions. Contributing to this harmony was an identical view of international affairs: for both Presidents, the defense of democracy against Hitler and Mussolini was primary. The circumstances today are different, but the principles on which that good relation was founded still apply: respect for the independence of Mexico, tolerance toward the necessary and almost always healthy diversity of opinions, fidelity on both sides to the interests of democracy...