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BUSHU LATAR Victoria, Cameroon
...lacked only a tube of Clairol or smile-brightening toothpaste to make the image complete. Simon Rouse and Patrick O'Connell portray, respectively, the factory worker at adolescence and maturity, and have in common only a kind of grumpy indifference that is supposed to pass for alienation. Victoria Tennant, the ragman's daughter, is suitably lubricious. She has the comeliness of a model, although it must be said in some sorrow that she acts rather like a British Ali MacGraw. It is only of fleeting consolation that she looks nifty in knee socks...
...Labor came to power there would be "howls of anguish from the rich" and that he would squeeze them "until the pips squeak." For another, shortly before Healey brought his first budget to the House of Commons in the traditional red leather dispatch box bearing the monogram VR (for Victoria Regina), it was announced that under Conservative leadership the nation had suffered the worst monthly trade deficit in its history -$1.02 billion in February...
...passersby. Then started the grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
...danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say, "The Blue Angel"--is sensuality: it takes care of fluidity, momentum and vividness in a fell swoop if it's used right. Hershman does, by making his serpent a double image, played by two women, Gypsy Knocks and Victoria Kins. They never stop moving, swaying and undulating in a coiling mass that envelopes a fascinated Eve in the sexuality of knowledge and mortality...