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KING AND COUNTRY. The trial and execution of a pathetic World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) mean agony for the officer (Dirk Bogarde) assigned to defend him in this rigorous British drama by Joseph Losey (The Servant...
...Your Essay accurately states the absurd, puritanical and self-defeating nature of most divorce statutes. But forced reconciliation negotiations before a civil servant are as much an affront to adults as present divorce laws. Respect for the dignity of the individual and for his right to terminate an intimate relationship is more important than the benefits of mass counseling...
...whom he loved, but he could not get his peasant soul to stand upright and ask for her hand from her senator father, and she married someone else. Gareth's present, equally hard to stomach, is his own storekeeper father, for whom he works rather like an indentured servant. "Old Screwballs," as Gareth refers to him, is clench-lipped, word-shy, and sclerotically set in his ways. An evening with him is an unaltering ritual of despair: one cup of tea (never two), a game of checkers with the canon, a grunt of shoptalk. Gareth's father puts...
KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unfolds the pity-and-terror-filled tale of a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and of the British officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
...exclusive lagoon-front district of Lagos, the commander of the presidential guard led a handful of troops to the homes of Prime Minister Balewa and his Finance Minister. Sir Abubakar, summoned from prayers, told his servant that "this means there is trouble," but submitted with dignity. He appeared fully dressed, arms above his head, wrists together, ready for handcuffs. Not so Okotie-Eboh, known throughout Nigeria as the king of "dash"-the word used throughout West Africa for the ever-present bribery. Producing a thick wad of bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas...