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England's best chance came ten minutes later; Matt Le Tissier's header beat Italian keeper Angelo Peruzzi but bounced wide of an unguarded...
Tomorrow morning, millions of Englishmen will be anguishing over manager Glenn Hoddle's preference to Matt Le Tissier in his starting line-up over Paul Merson or Les Ferdinand; thousands of Chelsea fans will be torn between club and country on account of Gianfranco Zola's well-taken strike...
...Excommunicated by whom?" scoffed Lefebvre at his press conference, as his seminarians gazed on admiringly. "By modernists, by people who should themselves be publicly excommunicated. It has no value." The bishops-to-be are two administrators of Lefebvre's Priestly Society of St. Pius X, the French Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and the Swiss Bernard Fellay; Richard Williamson, the head of Lefebvre's U.S. branch and a convert from Anglicanism; and Argentina's Alfonso de Galarreta. Both Fellay and Galarreta are also under the canonical age requirement of 35 for bishops...
Still another factor was the remarkable popularity of Communist Jacques Duclos, a 72-year-old roly-poly extravert who looks as though he had never given up his youthful job as a pâtissier. Although he serves as the party's chief propagandist, Duclos wisely concentrated on giving Communism a friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically...
...French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious of their humor...