Word: ne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since General Ne Win tossed bumbling Premier U Nu out of office last March, the only thing that has kept him from rushing headlong into a program of industrial nationalization and farm collectivization has been the influence of tough, handsome Brigadier Aung Gyi. Last week the brakes were off. After a long feud with leftist members in the 17-man Revolutionary Council, Aung Gyi "most respectfully" asked Strongman Ne Win "to relieve me of the various duties to which I have been assigned...
...Comme il ne faux...
Scholarly as well as sprightly, the shows constantly match language to life. Dawn Addams brandishes a sandwich to explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use ne and pas and keep them apart. To teach the French possessive RTF uses a song-and-mime team called the Frères Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would...
Richard Lowenthal, who plays Tony Lumpkin, Mrs. Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well son by a previous marriage, has a riot of a face, and the stupidest-sounding bluff giggle I've ever heard; but he screams his lines, some of them as crucial to the plot as any lines can be to such a plot, and they are lost. Tony's fond mother is not a very interesting or amusing person, so anything Janet Leslie gets out of the part--and she gets quite a bit--is a testament to her skill...
...then usually dines with his wife and other relations whenever there is no state banquet. Like the lunches, dinners are simple and quick. De Gaulle is fond of soup, and huffily remarks that the Elysée blends are inferior to those prepared by his Colombey cook, Philoméne. He also dotes on a special beef stew that the family calls "stewed Salan's head.'' Dinner over, De Gaulle may watch a private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy) or sit with Yvonne before the television set, like any bourgeois couple, until...