Word: noir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salan has what other pied-noir leaders lacked?executive ability and discipline. Though he has the gift of phrasemaking ("The Mediterranean crosses France the way the Seine crosses Paris"), he is no mere rabble-rouser...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay, for example, is related to a Pouilly-Fuissé or a Chablis, white Riesling to a dry Rhine, Sauvignon Blanc to a superior dry Graves; in the reds. Cabernet Sauvignon is like red Bordeaux, Pinot Noir like lesser Burgundy, Camay Beaujolais similar to the French Beaujolais...
...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...