Word: reproacher
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...wider European market, convinced that since Britain produces more per acre and per man than any nation in Europe, they will more than hold their own. With the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Express, the British press is enthusiastically pro-Common Market, and most editorialists reproach Macmillan for his hesitancy...
Much of the film is shocking to a viewer unused to the apparent helplessness of the defendant in a French trial. Yet Director Clouzot's somewhat muddled J'Accuse is directed at more than the Napoleonic Code. It is intended to be a reproach to a callous society. But society will seize any excuse, even tepid acting, to avoid recognizing a reproach. And while Brigitte is an adequate comedienne, her dramatic acting is in the old cowboy tradition of two emotions-hat on and hat off. Except, of course, that with BB what comes...
...spiking of two enormous German guns before a lost British battalion can be evacuated from an Aegean island. The man who can pull it off is Gregory Peck. "Why me?" asks Peck, his deer's eyes regarding his gruff, lovable old commander (James Robertson Justice) with reproach. "Well," the G.L.O.C. answers reasonably, "you speak German like a German, Greek like a Greek, and before the war you were the greatest mountain climber in the world...
...accord Tshombe "fair treatment and due process of law." But the U.N.'s special representative to the Congo, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who had been quick to protest Kasavubu's least move to counter the machinations of pro-Communist Patrice Lumumba, uttered not a word of reproach. In fact he was still "consulting" in New York, and seemed disinclined to return to the Congo, where he seems to have incurred the displeasure of nearly all Congolese. Explained one observer: "In the next few weeks, it's just possible we will find the whole crew...
...their way through all of the essentially unrelated scenes they stumble upon. All of the cast worked without pay. At Morgan's request they also signed a Model Release form waiving their rights to sue the producer for anything in the movie which might subject them to "ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn and indignity...