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...bread for distribution by the police. From the audience a baker snouted back, "Let 'em eat biscotte." By week's end, however, the bakers cooled down and their ovens began heating up again. Calling off the strike in Paris, the Bakers Syndicate explained: "We think that the Parisian population, which perhaps can endure a temporary annoyance, should not suffer a persistent lack of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Battle of Bread | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...going, Krasna brings onscreen those familiar enlisted men: the serious-minded, college-bred sergeant (John Forsythe) and his comical, nearly illiterate sidekick (Tommy Noonan), a pair whose tastes are so completely at variance that only Hollywood would think of them as buddies. Forsythe and Olivia romp through a standard Parisian romance-up the Eiffel Tower and down to the caves; along the Seine for lovemaking; to Notre Dame and the fashion shows. Along the way are substandard complications: Forsythe thinks Olivia has stolen his wallet; Olivia thinks Forsythe is trying to seduce her; Forsythe, eavesdropping on Olivia and her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...nation is deep in a costly and frustrating struggle in Algeria, and chief aider and abettor of the rebels is Dictator Nasser. When Premier Guy Mollet ordered two-thirds of the French navy and a Moroccan division to be ready "to impose" a solution in the Suez, one Parisian growled: "Well worth it. We'd be cutting the serpent's head instead of hacking off its tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: Angry Challenge & Response | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...should not be destroyed. Protested Kinsey: "The issue involved is the right of a scholar to have access to material which is denied the general public." Among the material that the federals would deny to Scholar Kinsey: 1) six naughty Chinese paintings dating from about 1750, 2) some spicy Parisian lithographs, 3) a handful of wooden and stone phallic symbols from China, 4) a little 18th century tome titled The Lascivious Hypocrite, or The Triumphs of Vice, 5) a rather obscene Japanese scroll, 6) filthy drawings and lewd notations, tagged simply, "lavatory wall inscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Doctors (Kingsley-lnternational) is a French movie in which, as in most movies about doctors and most movies made in France, the part of the anatomy most affected is the heart. Based on Andre Soubiran's international bestseller, it tells of a brilliant but cynical Parisian medical student (Raymond Pellegrin) who acquires an understanding heart as a country doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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