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...should Prince Charles expect to be welcomed in Virginia? Because the colony was heavily populated by Highlanders, many of whom had fought under him at Culloden. An additional force of Highlanders was captured by the French at Quebec, paroled, and then marched South to vex their former British masters. The British were unpopular in Virginia anyway, since they taxed whisky stills and kept recruiting farm boys to fight the French in howling wilderness...
That will not vex, and vanish, when whims move...
...Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart murmur, which...
Another Hanoi spokesman denounced the raids as "an extremely serious act of war against the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, a brazen violation of its sovereignty and security." One thing that may vex Hanoi is that by its count, the number of U.S. overflights is on the rise-from 7,970 in 1969 to 11,180 so far this year...
Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...