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...many as 1 million Muslims died during and after the war. French casualties, military and civilian, are estimated at 27,000 killed and some 65,000 injured. When the end came, a terrible exodus began. Forced to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin," nearly 1 million white pied noir settlers tearfully abandoned their homeland. For more than a century it had been considered as much a part of France as Brittany or Provence...
Good film noir at the Central Square...
Gilda. Done in 1946 by King Vidor, "Gilda" is the best of the "film noir" style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford...
...recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with the hints of the future" in the Hargraves' Pinot Noir...
Dirty Hands also suffers from a regrettable tendency peculiar to the film noir: tiresome recapitulations at a certain point in the narrative of what has transpired thus far. Such devices are designed to perform a service for the audience, and the elaborately tangled plots of some films belonging to this genre cry out for an occasional rehash, so long as the timing is judicious. But Chabrol seems unable to grasp the delicacy that this device requires. The authorities' periodic attempts to sort out the more baffling knots in the narrative come off as hopelessly contrived, and Chabrol's vain effort...