Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone opposed De Gaulle's plans with the ferocity of Nancy, but support for the general showed slippage in almost every sector of France. His traditional centers of strength in Alsace-Lorraine and Brittany still produced affirmative votes of 58% and 57% respectively, but the totals were less than in previous elections. The tiny village of Briare (TIME, April 25), a near-perfect voting profile of France in the six previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris...
...suggested as a centrist candidate for President because of his performance. He maintains that "I am not ambitious" and says that he would agree to run only if he got the kind of draft that is now unlikely in view of factional bickering in the centrist parties where his strength would lie. Unless he changes his mind, Poher will thus surrender his Elysian prerogatives after 35 days, taking away a memory of temporary power well-employed and a sense of satisfaction that the deluge did not come...
...insofar as people show these concerns, we as a nation ought to think of them as the source of future strength...
...closer and closer to him. Finally the wife goes into his cabin which is filled with souvenirs of the seven seas. Simon's pride as he shows off his precious machines is touching. A little pathetic, he becomes no weaker; Vigo treats his personal peculiarities as a source of strength...
VIGO IS THUS sympathetic in the deepest sense; he takes the most grotesque facets of his people and, by making them beautiful, creates their individual strength. This all happens in motion. The progressive character revelation he achieves by constantly placing characters in different positions and new rooms, is supported by the imagery of journey and development--the barge in the river. The film's easy motion through extremely strange scenes carries it naturally into sequences of pure imagination--the montages of the captain and his wife dreaming of each other after the barge's departure without her has separated them...