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...sees going in and out of the corner tabacs all over France. Melville never comments on the absurd distance between the risks this group runs and the apparent paucity of the results they achieve. Melville has said that at the time his picture covers (1942-43) the underground had only 600 members (more joined later) so there wasn?t much they could do but try to save their own skins. But he seems to feel that it was better that there was a resistance - something on which to build a heroic myth after the nation?s abject surrender - than...
...Chief among its reluctances is killing Germans. Exactly one of them, a hapless guard at the Paris Gestapo headquarters, is murdered by Philippe (the great Lino Ventura) as he makes his escape from his would-be torturers. For the rest of the picture he runs a little band of underground fighters who are mainly preoccupied with their own security. You never see them blowing up a train or ambushing a German patrol or, for that matter, doing anything remotely useful to the Allied cause. Instead they pursue traitors in their own midst and spend a lot of time trying...
...With Mephistophelean good looks swathed in leopard-skin couture, Smith was a ready-made icon of the Underground, and an easy magnet for police and politicians. "Moral decay is spreading through our country and our society," declaimed one bluenose, brandishing a poster for Flaming Creatures - thus giving priceless free publicity to the film he meant to denounce...
...participate in Arts First because the festival allows the Kroks to sing for Harvard in a less formal setting and to engage in the sharing of music. Following Harvard’s oldest a capella group is one of its youngest. A splinter group from Collegium Musicum, Collegium Underground came together just this year.According to the group’s manager, Zachary A. Rothstein ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, this co-ed ensemble offers Collegium Musicum members the opportunity to focus on jazz and contemporary a capella. Rothstein says that Arts First...
...document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties - and who may now go underground...