Word: tumbrels
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...session. The opening scene promises a melodrama dressed in the intriguing cutaway of international incident. Once the curtain has fallen, however, on the unique spectacle of the French and British U.N. delegates sneaking a corpse out of the U.S. delegate's apartment, the play rolls on like a tumbrel through scenes which seem to bore even the actors. Until the final scene's return to the plane of melodrama, the pace collapses completely. Without incisiveness, wit, or much relevance to the plot, the conversation rambles from the Korean War to freedom of the press to the merits of a Brahms...
...followers of General de Gaulle greased the wheels of the tumbrel-they served notice that they would throw their votes against Pinay, instead of abstaining as has been their practice. The Catholic M.R.P., whose 88 deputies are Pinay's chief source of numerical strength, decided to drop the guillotine knife-they withdrew support from the Premier. All that remained was for Antoine Pinay to lay his neck on the block...