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...eighth of eleven children of a Spanish Sephardi and his Serbian-Italian wife, he was totally unconcerned with nationality. He Frenchified his name to Pascin, but he was equally at home in Paris, Munich and New York, where he eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1920. Nor did his riotous ways change with his location; everywhere he went, he liked to sponge up wine, Pernod and brandy, painted with 30 or 40 friends carousing about him in his studio. And mostly his subjects and companions were the girls of easily available virtue...
Little Lebanon, an oasis of stability and old-fashioned economic freedom in the impoverished and riotous Middle East, prospers not only by trade but as a money market. In less than two decades, its bustling capital of Beirut has grown into the world's newest financial center, the shrewd regional banker to everybody from wealthy Arab sheiks to huge U.S. oil companies. Last week, in a crisis that shook the country's fiscal structure to the bottom of its vaults, Lebanon was forced to shut its 93 banks for three days...
...tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant lecture on morals to the film's bittersweet climax in Prague, where the boy's parents forcibly separate their wayward son from his unexpected guest by dragging him off to their own bed for a riotous family quarrel...
...senior citizen on a round-the-world tour needs to set aside some time for idleness. Last week Charles de Gaulle, nearing the end of an odyssey that b gan three weeks ago in riotous Djibouti, took time out as the Senior Citizen of France in its island colonies in the blue Pacific. In Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials...
...first half of the movie, when the focus is on Morgan trying to manipulate society, the exploration is riotous. There is something of Jerry Lewis's congenital incompetence in Morgan's attempts to threaten and bully. Something childlike, but not quite. A kid picking wings off a fly can ease into adulthood, but Morgan doesn't have the potential to be even a human baby. He's apart and that's that...