Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Félix Gaillard summoned newsmen to an impromptu conference one night last week and greeted them with a broad smile: "Gentlemen, good news at last. A corner of blue has opened in the sky for France. We are delivered from the nightmare in which we have been living for many months." Gaillard had just learned that his emissary Jean Monnet, France's most famed advocate of European unity, was coming home from Washington bearing $655 million in credits...
...things with another girl, will you?" But she hastens to add, in the tone of a flapper who would not be caught dead with a conventional notion about sex, "I want you to have girls, though." He sobs, and she promises, with a ghastly smile, "I'll come and stay with you nights." She dies murmuring Hemingway's definition of death: "It's just a dirty trick...
...vision of beauty-a girl he thinks he once loved. But as pieces of the mad mosaic drop into place, it becomes clear that he is not facing a beautiful girl but a harridan with blue-rinsed hair and "grey old teeth that licked at him with such a smile of knowledge." In the end, the knowledge comes to him that his fate is at the mercy of a vengeful crone he has jilted...
Truman Capote's plays and novels are probably contemporary America's closest approach to Leprechaun literature. Their atmosphere and characters embody a childlike, wistful world which, if and when it is forced to meet tawdry reality, usually leaves the encounter with a gently victorious smile...
Jane Cronin plays the meek sister quietly, almost mutely, almost ideally. Her searching, nearly childlike smile needs no words to help it unfold the character's frail tenderness. Olympia Dukakis, as the maid who is at one point compared to a walrus and who never travels without her goldfish, often squawks excellently, although her accent seems queasy. Her face is powerful. Richard Gavin plays the nephew with grace, youth, and a good balance of strength and weakness; he makes an effective contrast to the old judge, played by the director. Ree Christiansen, the fierce sister, screws her icy nerves...