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From the sun-soaked beaches of Copacabana to the rain-drenched upper reaches of the Amazon, more than 10 million Brazilians went to the polls to vote on how powerful the country's presidency should be. In September 1961, after Jânio Quadros' petulant resignation and flight...
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a petulant British everyman's How to Succeed, written, directed, composed, mimed, sung, and stage-hogged by Anthony Newley, who is not all that talented. His helpmate, Anna Quayle, is a comic find.
In the plush, colonnaded picture gallery, Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) wheedles, cajoles, amuses, and stimulates a cultural lust for owning Giorgiones and Masaccios in the blank-walled minds of crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and...
The unnamed imperialists worrying Sihanouk were clearly his neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam, both of which have old feuds going with Cambodia. Sihanouk likes to show off his 28,000-man army, along with the 25,000 men and women in paramilitary units, but he evidently feels that they...
Petulant Praise. Said Nixon, in words that were too small of spirit to make for real tragedy: "Now that all the members of the press are so delighted that I have lost, I'd like to make a statement of my own." He spoke in petulant praise of his...