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...Army Colonel Antoine Argoud, 49, military mastermind of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, last week was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thin and pale, Argoud scarcely looked the part of a conspirator who might plot the death of De Gaulle; yet his trial put a strain on the fragile new friendship between France and West Germany...
...heart almost jumps out of her mouth as the civil defense buzzer sounds a Yellow Warning. The secretary runs to the principal. The principal runs to the phone and calls CD communications. The line is busy. Since time is of the essence, he must assume the worst. Pale and trembling, he assembles staff and students in the schoolyard and issues the ominous command: Go home as fast...
...small town lawyer who, by her own testimony, had provided her with "exquisite home-training and refinement." Poor Hardy was born the son of a mason. Soon after their marriage she was belittling her husband in public; Robert Louis Stevenson's wife remembered Hardy as "a pale, gentle, frightened little man that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife-ugly is no word for it!" While Hardy suffered his fright in silence, Emma kept score of her numerous grievances against him in a notebook titled "What I Thought of My Husband"; Hardy himself discovered...
Even Shakespeare purists who pale at the idea of a 110 minutes cutting of the three-and-a-half hour play, will approve of Welles's condensation. His use of panning camera motion animates the long dialogue sections he retained from the play's late acts, particularly the soliloquies which on stage tend to be unbearably static. This vividness and motion more than compensate for the confused nature of the early scenes, in which Welles's attempt to speed through preliminaries makes a prior reading of the play advisable...
...famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...