Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood makes a musical. We're going to shoot the can-can number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable, saw no reason for not relaxing and making it the gayest oddball social event of the season...
...giving the F.L.N. rebels a base on its soil, and Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser had backed the army officers who plotted last March's Mosul rising (see below) against Iraq's Premier Kassem-to which Cairo replied by charging that Iraqi pilots shepherd Israeli ships through...
...saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks. I will not allow people to bore me. Nobody has ever been more alive than I. I am an electric eel in a pond full of flatfish...
...London meeting Sedov even seemed to enjoy his own doubletalk. When the Russians withdrew an astronomical paper, Sedov admitted to a Russian-speaking colleague that the reason was that British figures proved it erroneous. But when a British reporter asked for corroboration, Sedov offered three other explanations in quick succession : 1) there were too many papers already; 2) it would have been given if the author had been on hand; and 3) there were not enough Russian scientists present to discuss it. He chuckled merrily at each new alibi...
Author Myrivilis allows for more sentimentality than most; yet it does not cloy. The reason is quite simple: that is how things are. Smaragthi remains consistent to the end, unmarried, herself a sort of mermaid Madonna who rolls naked in the sea like a porpoise but shrinks with revulsion from a man's touch. The fishermen soak up the local booze, beat their wives, and listen with awe to the tavernkeeper's yarns about the wonders of America, where he made his pile. An ancient crone tells wondrous fairy tales. A pathetic schoolmaster dreams of the great...