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While the world's statesmen hotly debated its fate in the U.N., the Congo sprawled in the equator's heat, torpid and listless. The riotous chaos and killing had mostly stopped. In its place was a vapid, restless calm...
...Apartment. The riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show his cynically sentimental view of human nature...
...Apartment. The often riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show off his cynically sentimental view of human nature...
Everything, however, is not riotous and gay; there are odd little corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful...
...brightest note at Newport was sounded by a rebel group of modern jazzmen who launched their own competing festival in a rambling seaside hotel, Cliff Walk Manor. Headed by Bass Player Charlie Mingus and Drummer Max Roach, the rebels played right through the riotous weekend, drew 750 people on Sunday night, grossed $4,700. With the encouragement of Louis Lorillard's divorced wife Elaine, they made plans to form their own Jazz Artists' Guild, and to sell tapes of their concerts, which eventually may appear on four LPs under the title Rebellion at Newport. The cool rebels, including...