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...woman over, approves of his son's selection and announces suavely: "You cannot go home. My room is at your disposal." Stunned, she follows him. In the room he grabs her, kisses her, slugs her, rips her dress away. "Please," she murmurs seductively, "turn out the light." Triumphant, he turns to do as she asks, turns back in horror to see her leaping from the balcony to the street...
...MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE: VOL. III, SALVATION 1944-1946. The last volume of De Gaulle's Memoirs grimly but eloquently describes what happened when the triumphant hero found himself on home soil surrounded by politicians who, according to him, preferred intrigue and political anarchy to his own iron patriotism...
Yovicsin said in the post-game press conference--as the strains of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow, Wow, Wow" came down from the visiting team's showers--said that he hoped Ravenel's triumphant touchdown was some sort of reward for his Harvard career. "Not nearly as great as winning, of course," the poised and calm Yovicsin said of "the greatest player I have ever coached...
Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest triumphant incarnation...
Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest, triumphant incarnation...