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...Rules of the Game is an amusing tragedy of manners. Never rude or strained, the picture flays the social excesses of the French aristocracy, exposing lives of vapid insincerity and vicious lack of purpose. Director and co-scenarist Jean Renoir is too subtle to stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering...
...talk with the Russians. You can feel the old man prodding those Americans, 'Get on with it, get on with it.' Old he may be, but who cares? He's the only person who has kicked the Americans into the conference room-that's a rude word, I take it back-persuaded the Americans into the conference room...
...much Eccles' rude word as the Conservatives' record of providing better living and lower taxes that won by-elections for them last week in the port town of Harwich and in the dock and milling city of Hull in Yorkshire. In both they polled a higher percentage of the total vote than at the 1951 election. In Hull the gain was a solid 3.65%. In 27 by-elections since the general election in 1951 that returned them to power, the Tories have held all their own seats (15) and won one hitherto-safe Labor seat-the first time...
...Excuse, please, very rude question," piped one: "Is your walk natural or is just for movies...
...There has been an accumulation of small irritations, but I couldn't point to any one thing." What about the rumor that Godfrey was giving up smoking? Replied Stanton: "If he said that, it was probably as a joke. I can't believe Arthur would be that rude to a personal friend like Ben Few [Liggett & Myers president]. And there's nothing new about his smoking a pipe-he does it every now & then...