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...like to credit the film's thesis that Israel arose out of Auschwitz, and do not find the present Israeli cult of the holocaust to my taste. But the trauma is there and makes nought of Mr. Caploe's tasteless numbers game. Hitler actually killed not six million Russians, as Caploe erroneously thinks, but at least twenty million. Yet the cause was not the same as for the Jews and neither was the effect...
...opened fire, killing several of the crowd. Infuriated workers draped the body of a slain youth in a Polish flag and carried it toward City Hall. There militiamen fired again. Official reports said 21 were killed, but eyewitnesses said: "They have made a mistake; they have left off the nought at the end of the figure...
They had listened carefully and copied down each date and its number patiently. but the radio announcer's recap made it all too clear that their care and patience had been for nought...
Clouzot's world is as exciting as it is black. All men are equal in the long run, because all their efforts are reduced to nought by the impersonal fate which guides their lives. The Wages of Fear is probably the best film noir in twenty years, so fans of Hitchcok, Sartre, Poe, Graham Greene, and Ambrose Bierce should not miss...
...counted for nought with the President of France. Last week, on the day after his 78th birthday, he brought off the greatest surprise in a long lifetime dedicated to the practice of the unexpected. In a stunning act of defiance against the world's financial experts and the seeming necessity of events, he refused to devalue the franc by one centime. Compared with De Gaulle's other famous nons-his withdrawal from NATO and his vetoes of British admission to the Common Market-the refusal to devalue was, perhaps, not of equal importance but certainly even more surprising...