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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Buňuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
...been recalled from Britain's Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Farouk was then a tall, handsome youth of 16 who took pride in his position as Egypt's Chief Boy Scout. After a two-year regency, Farouk got full power and pledged he would be "the first servant of my country...
Lois Inman, as Kristin, reflects the confident composure of a servant who knows her station and is contemptuous of those who lack the same knowledge...
...Hutchinson has succeeded particularly well in her interpretation of the peasant dance coincident with the off-stage seduction. The dance is stylized and subdued, providing the audience with a pleasing respite from the dramatic illusion, and giving a distinct division to the play at the moment where master and servant exchange roles...
...better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life." To Kraft, who sees him in somewhat sharper focus, "Hoover is in the most literal sense the 'G-Man'-the Government man par excellence. He is the supreme example of the successful civil servant-the compleat bureaucrat...