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...Frey throws a wingding below. Suffering through the Oedipal conflict, language dubbing and dense cinematic trickery are Jurgens' wife Alida Valli and daughter Susan Strasberg. Among the more perceptive waiters hired for the revels is Hero Renato Salvatori, who abruptly exclaims: "What a house-lonely, sad, mean and rotten!" Salvatori heads home to Milan, only to find more moral chaos. Jean Sorel is so alienated that he goes to a party and seduces his own wife, luscious Antonella Lualdi, who clearly prefers Host Louis Jourdan. But Jourdan prefers a young man called Bruno, Salvatori's friend. Then, trying...
Preaching Subversion. Young Communist intellectuals flocked to hear the daring professor. When Havemann boldly repeated his subversive opinions to a West German reporter, adding that "most Communist officials think as I do," the party's Central Committee condemned him as one of "those intellectuals who lay rotten eggs in the party's nest." But instead of denouncing him, the Humboldt University Communist Party cell voted to back Havemann. Finally, the government was forced into the embarrassing position of firing its eminent scholar. The regime dismissed the outspoken Havemann as a "degenerate thinker"-a favorite Nazi charge used...
...most successful Parisian theater scandals need as much care and planning as the most successful general strikes. The opening-night audience must arrive at the Paris Opéra knowing just how furious it will soon become; how else would everyone be sure to bring rotten eggs and carrots under his coat? The Paris press seemed to be coaxing up a fine rumble shortly after the first rehearsal of Maurice Béjart's new production of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared...
...three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat without knowing why: "The fight is on with no holds barred. If you have a reason I'm sure it's a rotten one. . . . .I understand nothing but I accept...
...came from the poorest family on earth. As a boy I went barefoot most of the time and never did 1 receive anything at Christmas. I believed in Santa Claus and hung my stocking up, but never found an apple." When he did, of course, it was rotten...