Word: ren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government. Though the exhibitors seemed to be cutting off their gross to spite their face, they were also cutting off-with the only and most dramatic means available-the 24% of that gross sluiced away in a special tax. "The survival of French cinema is at stake," declared Director René Clair. And though the industry suffers from many ills, he continued, "the worst problem right now is this taxation." Clair's polemics came at a wellrehearsed, Defend French Cinema Day press conference that was followed by a one-hour sympathy strike, from the producers to les script-girls...
...René Barrientos, 45, the air force general who bosses Bolivia's revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes - handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has survived seven assassination at tempts: four by gunfire, three by bombs. Last year, just after President Victor Paz Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept...
...HOUSE. Along the Riviera, Director René Clément (Purple Noon) masterminds a sometimes merry, sometimes scary chase involving a professional Romeo (Alain Delon) who is pursued by killers and by a high-spirited vamp (Jane Fonda) who prefers to take him alive...
...RENÉ BRÜTSCH...
Plotting against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots-real or imagined-is the government's favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last week Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, head of the military junta that ousted President Víctor Paz Estenssoro last November, was suddenly crying plot as if he had invented the game. Barrientos' troops rounded up 26 of the ex-President's supporters and disarmed the 2,000-man national police. The cops, fumed Barrientos, while calling for reorganization of the force, were...