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...handful of the migrants have been European. The most numerous (and sought after) "New Australians" still are "Pommies,"* meaning Britons. But it has been the arrival of 1,000,000 Continental Europeans in two decades that has most profoundly influenced the way of life Down Under. Once stolid menus now offer Bratwurst and steak Bordelaise, Australian football stars have names like Ditterich and Silvagni, and Danish modern furniture comes all the way from Melbourne or Sydney. This week Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman returned from a six-week tour of Europe, jubilant at having signed new immigration treaties with Malta...
...backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...
Diary of a Chambermaid. Newly arrived from Paris to work in a stolid provincial home, the vixenish maid (Jeanne Moreau) quietly appraises her surroundings. Her employers inhabit a cheerless chateau stuffed with ferns, overprotected objets d'art, and family skeletons. She duly notes that the place is full of opportunities for a clever girl. "Do you mind if I touch your calf?" asks the master, feeling amorous. But Madame is watchful, so the maid bestows her favors instead on Madame's father, a haughty old fetishist who asks only that she hike up her skirts and model...
Richard Todd plays a man-about-Edinburgh, a passionate travel agent who longs to be Scotch with a twist of Lemmon but more often looks stolid as a Rock. Todd has a prim fiancee and a yen for side trips. When his girl says no, he treks off to the Continent to find more accessible playmates, and for remembrance gives each a key to his flat. In Munich, he meets Nicole Maurey. In Venice, he nuzzles a handsome matron whose teen-age daughter gets the key by mistake. In the Alps, he gets stranded with blonde Elke Sommer, a scenic...
...eight stolid generations of Lowells glared from their dining-room portraits and a squad car plus three University fuzz stood vigil beside locked Lowell House gates, the poets lovers pronounced a record 74 utterances that were, as Orlovsky shyly put it, "not dirty, you know, just unsanitary." That doesn't count metaphors...