Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems, until Director Alain Resnais warms to his real work: examining the mind and mores of a Spanish Communist refugee who lives in France but plots to undermine Spain's government. Diego, the refugee (Yves Mon-tand), refuses to concede that the Civil War ended in 1939, that for all but a dwindling detachment of long-memoried men La Guerre Est Finie-the war is over. Diego travels a dreadmill between the two countries in constant fear of arrest. He knows that for him there can be no victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit...
...Guerre Est Finie. At the Spanish border a car is checked by the guards, then sent on its way. Unknown to the police, it carries a pair of Red agents bent on toppling the Franco regime. Still another peek into the spyglass...
...seems, until Director Alain Resnais warms to his real work: examining the mind and mores of a Spanish Communist refugee who lives in France but plots to undermine Spain's government. Diego, the refugee (Yves Mon-tand), refuses to concede that the Civil War ended in 1939, that for all but a dwindling detachment of long-mem-oried men La Guerre Est Finie - the war is over...
...dreadmill between the two countries in constant fear of arrest. He knows that for him there can be no victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit that seems a stranger within his skin, he continues the gritty business of contacting comrades, smuggling propaganda into convoluted Spanish cities where, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, the streets follow like a tedious argument...
...Hutton (Dina's father) a year later. Hutton built the company into General Foods Corp. (JellO, Maxwell House, Yuban, Birds Eye). At last reports, Mrs. Post still held about 7% of the outstanding stock, worth $128 million. The Huttons also built Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room Spanish "cottage" in Palm Beach, and acquired a 350-ft. yacht, but their marriage ran aground. Marjorie in 1935 divorced Hutton on grounds of adultery...