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Nice and cartoonish (presumably we're still vulnerable, and went to the Thon to feel five again), but something about it was threatening, the way masked figures are at a roc concert where violence and ugliness are very near--painted faces leering as if to say that this gathering is a drug that will alter things so that you won't know who you are or who your friends are or what the world...
...International Hotel serenely went on winking its ad for the " 1,000 and One Nights" supper club. The second Israeli group splashed ashore on a narrower beach half a mile away, clambered up a rocky incline and found three more rented cars on top of a promontory called Eden Roc...
...film. This time it is two women sisters in love with the same man not two men with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit to the Brown home in Wales. There he gradually, but inevitably, falls...
Avraham Yoffe is undaunted by the problems. He plans another preserve of biblical animals on a hilly, wooded 5,000-acre tract in Galilee. He hopes to stock it with Judean lions, Syrian bears, roc and fallow deer from Iran. Like Noah, he will do his best to ensure that the beasts go forth and multiply. "We wish to live amid life," he says...
...delegates' week was falling into a pattern?interminable night sessions, sleep, afternoons of caucuses. Although Miami Beach is designed for leisure and indolence, it was put to remarkably industrious use. Some delegates plunged into swimming pools and the Fontaine-bleau's Boom Boom Room, some took in the Eden Roc's "Love Machine" erotica or listened to Pearl Williams, a road-company Sophie Tucker, at the Place Pigalle. But mostly they talked earnestly among themselves, taking endless notes. They seemed to treat Miami Beach as a curious rococo phenomenon, something beside the point...