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...murders, is safe and smug. When the boys first try to kill the girl, they dump her in a tiny fountain in two inches of water and creep away, expecting her to drown. The gag does not work because it is clear that the girl is in no peril. Elaine May put her heroine directly in harm's way, and managed to make the murderous husband funny at the same time. Nichols just plays it all too cozy...
...Christian Rich plays Paul, an aristocratic young gentile student who hopes to use his advance warning of the deportation to save as many Jews as possible. On the morning of the deportation, he visits the Jewish quarters on the right bank to alert Jews to the enormity of their peril, to persuade them to hide and to offer them shelter on the left bank. Incredulity, confusion, fear and family solidarity conspire to prevent Jews from following Paul's advice: as French citizens, they cannot believe that the French police herding them into buses are sending them to their deaths...
...their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
Saigon has often known danger but never as acutely as now. There have been times of great peril-such as the 1968 Tet offensive that brought savage street fighting into the heart of the city-but Saigon managed swiftly to regain its calm, almost nonchalant air. This time the pressure is building slowly but surely, and the old insouciance is fast disappearing...
...barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued to work on plans for modern swing-wing jets and space re-entry vehicles until his retirement...