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Demy does in fact use the back streets and alleys of Los Angeles to maximum tacky effect. His characters, however, have far less meaning than the "Eats" and "Service" signs. Although many of the same people recur in each of his films -Lola, for example, was both the subject and the title of his first feature-they have about as much depth as wallpaper. Indeed, Demy uses his characters like wallpaper, merely as human interior decoration. Anouk Aimee is lovely and gracious as Lola, but her seductive simplicity is too hard-edged for Demy's blurry art nouveau. Dressed...
Santa Barbara disaster. Nixon also told the panel "to produce far more stringent and effective regulations" so that "crises of this kind will not recur...
...apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies who are young no longer, neglected or betrayed by their husbands, obsessed with violent crime, ready to pick up the first available...
...similar set-to, if not a duel, could possibly recur this year if Wallace won, say, the 47 electoral votes of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In that case, either Richard Nixon or Humphrey would need 55% of the remaining electoral votes to take the election. A popular-vote cliffhanger such as 1960 might well send the election to Capitol Hill-resulting in all sorts of weird possibilities and permutations...
Protests of this nature, then, are bound to recur. It is a truism that the lack of democratic voice leads to illegal student force, which in turn leads to changes in the University. Neither student power nor student freedom is a guarantee against student force. "It is naive to think that student feelings can be channeled into institutions," one University official remarked recently...