Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roughness in the second statement has been more apparent. In the past four years in Beeville (pop. 7,000), a South Texas oil and cattle town, Sheriff Ennis has killed seven people with his .44 Colt revolver and his .45 submachine gun-not all, however, with one shot...
...good guess would be that should Yale triumph in today's game, this relatively unimpressive New England town will break apart before the sun sets in the west...
...will question the fact that these men are "essential to the College" or that they should have adequate housing. What does grate is the ease with which a full professor or a visiting lecturer displaces veterans who have been waiting six months or a year for permanent in-town housing. One visiting professor placed an application with the Harvard Housing Trust a year prior to his arrival in Cambridge. Classified A-1, the next vacancy was set aside for him and held until he took up residence here this fall. At the present time 525 students living at Fort Devens...
Clair has phrased his essay as a gentle caricature of a motion picture-more particularly, of the French motion picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets...
...About Town is more than a complex piece of Clair irony. It is also a simple hymn to Paris. In the opening shot of the film, the camera kisses the cool, wet cobblestones of an alley. The screen is full of tender glances at rust-crusted sinks, at the lovelight in the eyes of streetlamps, at tired mustaches, at a street fiddler's tobacco-stained teeth, and at lovely women who (in a travesty of nostalgia) all look alike...