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Moliere's Dandin does not so much tell a story as examine a set of related topics. Its three acts are essentially a series of analytical variations on a theme. The central situation is easily stated: a rich bourgeois tradesman is married to a beautiful young noblewoman, who cuckolds; him by striking up with a passing youth but is always clever enough to make her husband seem in the wrong...
...room is the property of two odd brothers. The elder (Robert Shaw) has been in a mental institution, and between long silences he constructs his thoughts with the meticulous intensity of a child building a tower of blocks; the younger (Alan Bates) is a tradesman who only occasionally visits the room. In a gesture of almost absent-minded Samaritanism, the elder brother invites an old tramp to share his quarters...
...slices-well, just another. And some fat. I like a piece of fat. That's what I feel"). Through a long, meandering life, it becomes clear to the reader, food has been the old man's only passion. The Key to My Heart describes a young tradesman's attempt to close out an account with a notoriously tight-fisted but loose-loined gentlewoman. At first the gentlewoman tries seduction instead of settlement ("I like a man who works. You work like your father did-God, what an attractive man!"), and when she is rejected, pays...
Before long, mother and daughter are half in love with the same shy young intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of a local tradesman. As the Germans retreat, they eagerly start back to Rome, but on the way they are captured and raped by what looks like a gang of goums, wild mountain fighters from French Morocco...
...home his ambassador in Teheran, and Iran's ambassador in Cairo was ordered to leave Egypt with hardly time to change from pajamas to street clothes. To speed the harried ambassador on his way, an Egyptian court attached the Iranian embassy's furniture as security for a tradesman's bill...