Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Schell, as the unfortunate Gervaise, gives a virtuoso performance, pulling out every emotional stop, but with a restraint that makes her suffering convincing. Her tears and her simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know a good thing when they see one) have restricted Miss Schell's efforts almost exclusively to these two talents, M. Clement allows his star a fuller range of expression--with much more satisfactory results...
...armored car go by dragging another naked body by the heels. An onlooker rushed to the body, emasculated it. By the fourth day, when government patrols began clearing away the scores of burned-out cars and trucks, a witness counted 45 naked, mutilated bodies hanging from lampposts, bus-stop shelters and bridges. Total estimated dead: at least...
...Nyasaland last week, planes of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force dropped leaflets with a special message for the women "What will happen," they asked, "when your husband is in prison? Where will you get your cloth when all the money is used to pay fines? Tell your men to stop being stupid." By "being stupid" the government meant joining the nationalist agitation for Nyasaland to secede from the British-inspired Central African Federation...
From that moment Vincenzina knew what she must do. She bought a butcher knife, tucked it inside a newspaper and started walking. She found Ernesto, her first love, at a bus stop. "Vincenzina, you are prettier than ever," Ernesto began, but he did not finish. Vincenzina fell upon him with the knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach...
...Splash!" Speaking to the Sisters of Nevers, the Pope recalled the institute maintained by the same order in Venice. "They enlarged it here and enlarged it there-until finally the good sisters had to stop because Venice is on the sea and splash! they ran the risk of falling in." He concluded: "Now let us pray for you, for your families, and also for the Pope-because, to tell the truth, I want to live a long time. I like to live...