Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartwarming display of courage in the face of almost insurmountable odds, an inspiration to every "housebroken," intimidated victim of bureaucracy's unbending and arrogant illogic: for Woman of the Year, who else but Margaret Ann Lockwood...
...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...
Back to the Wall (Essex-Universal; Ellis) is a French murder mystery. The victim (Philippe Nicaud) is a young Parisian actor who drinks Scotch and smokes English cigarettes, but his outstanding habit is routinely French. The poor fellow cannot stop making love to another man's wife (Jeanne Moreau), his sweetheart from drama-school days. As the film begins, the husband (Gerard Oury), a dull young electronics millionaire, is expanding his plant, reinforcing a new concrete wall with the corpse of his wife's lover...
...wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard; or the terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat medics on bouncing Jeeps who, "kneeling and balancing and clinging miraculously with one arm, raised the other high, as one would a torch, holding a bottle...
...Zionist and longtime student of the Nazi victim-he wrote a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank that was never produced-Author Levin has evidently done thorough research on what happened after the Gestapo's fateful knock on hideaway doors. He has also covered civilian life as the enemy dourly lived it. In his attempt to follow up the actual Anne...