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...compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
...tailor is a rich Jew from Paris, hiding out in an uneasy commercial alliance with his client in hopes of getting to Spain and freedom. The tailor has a daughter (Aurore Clement), who becomes Lucien's quarry. She is fascinated by him, put off by him, intimidated by him. Finally she gives in to him out of a sense of inevitability and because there seems nowhere else to turn. Her name is France...
...moment of redemption and of greatest dignity is reserved for the tailor, a crusty old bourgeois who finally be comes sick of hiding and accepting the humiliation and, worse, the awkward help of Lucien. Wonderfully portrayed by Holger Lownadler, the tailor dresses in his best suit and pays a social call on Lucien at police headquarters, where he is promptly arrested. He has salvaged, at least, whatever remains of his honor...
FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre (1 last week) 2-Centennial, Michener (3) 3-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (6) 5-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (4) 6-Watership Down, Adams (5) 7-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 8-Cashelmara, Howafch (9) 9-The War Between the Tates, Lorie (8) 10-The Silver Bears, Erdman (10) NONFICTION 1 -All the President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...