Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough to keep continuity, it adds tart to the essentially sweet story, but it never becomes oppressive...
...better against the two top Democrats than his one dangerous challenger, New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller. But last week, in a dramatic turnabout which has also been reflected nationally since Nixon's trip to Russia, the Field poll showed that for Richard Nixon, California is once again home, sweet home. Rockefeller also gained in popularity, reflecting a general resurgence of Republican strength among the voters of California. The comparative Nixon-Rockefeller results, against Stevenson...
...Very First Time (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra; RCA, 3 LPs). A resurrection of 50 previously unreleased recordings of Miller broadcasts dating from the early '40s, when the band was in its roaring prime. The selections-I Cried For You, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Sweet and Low-carry a mistily nostalgic air, the big band sound is refulgent, and the phonograph shivers to a boldly swinging beat that has all but disappeared from the modern dance orchestra...
...Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists...
Otherwise, though the action has been sedulously (and sometimes clumsily) chopped up into various locales, the film is faithful to the spirit of its original. It is still about the social, marital, and personal maladjustment of a "working-class intellectual," a university-educated sweet-stall operator named Jimmy Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...