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...Latin America, the scandal had a decidedly déjà vu quality. Under its former name of United Fruit Co., United Brands' banana operations had been synonymous with Yanqui imperialism; United Fruit was widely known as el pulpo, or the octopus. More than one Latin government that got in its way fell. Since merging United Fruit with his own AMK Corp. in 1970 to form United Brands, however, Black had been trying to bury the el pulpo image. By paying high wages, providing workers with low-cost housing, building schools and operating well-equipped hospitals, he had earned...
...name in such French movies as La Guerre Est Finie and King of Hearts, but found that the Continent had its drawbacks. "Life there is just too difficult to cope with," she said. This month Genevieve must go to Italy to film Brian de Palma's Deja Vu, but she will come home to Malibu not Montreal. As she explained: "Scripts don't just flutter down with the snowflakes in Montreal...
...Crimson landed in the heart of fencing land, New York City, at an extreme psychological disadvantage. Thursday Cornell had crushed any Ivy title hopes, 14-13, and on Friday deja vu struck as Penn foiled the Crimson by the same margin...
...Paris Vu Par, with a Chaplin short, Sunday...
...Paris Vu Par. I can't imagine anyone going to see this, given the timing (it's Sunday night at Harvard-Epworth), but I guess there are some people who aren't in the bunker this week. Like If I Had A Million and that recent film on the Munich Olympics, this is a conglomerate movie, with different directors each interpreting the same subject--here, Paris. The directors are mostly New Wave in this case: Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, others, and--though the information I have here doesn't say so--I could have sworn that Louis...