Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give de Gaulle the popular legitimacy he needs and wants. The subsequent course of the new state will depend on two things: Algeria and the November elections. Whether de Gaulle will invest his authority in an attempt at putting a rapid end to the Algerian conflict remains to be seen, for the margin of action is so small that the referendum is not likely to make a big difference...
...white convict is played by Tony Curtis, who rose to fame as the schoolgirl's delight. This was probably because he looks like a slightly effeminate schoolboy at an inferior school. I had never seen him before, and he was a good deal better than I feared he would be, though he was a little hard to take in his reflective moments...
Author Southern's California of wide-screen girls, cultists, simpletons and satyrs has been seen before in Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One and in the misanthropic novels of Nathanael West. Southern hits more gently than Waugh or West, and is not so accomplished a writer. Though he is strikingly inventive in short scenes, he seems unable to plot beyond a dozen pages. Like the old two-reelers, Flash and Filigree lacks weight and discipline, but it also has an unfailing sense of the ridiculous, heightened by deadpan delivery...
Self-Appraisal. In Torrington, Conn., refusing to accept a proposed increase in salary, City Employee Raymond Over said the raise was "one of the most irresponsible government acts I had ever seen...
...artificial light is lost somewhere amidst the smoke and steam, but Nomily can be seen slumped over his glass. His pensive silence is suddenly interrupted by an off-stage voice...