Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven days a week-whenever they feel like communicating with someone else, by word or even by gesture, there is one of those indistinguishable staff members ready to listen. Some of the patients establish a relationship of the kind they need by helping others who are more severely withdrawn...
...mistress boards a plane to bring him back to the safe harbor of France, fearful that she may be too late, that this time he has finally bought a one-way ticket home. The official French entry at last May's Cannes Festival, La Guerre was withdrawn from competition under pressure from Spain. It is easy to see why: the villain of the piece is all too clearly the Franco government. Yet as Jorge Semprun's script makes clear, the revolutionists are not precisely heroes either. In the film's most insightful scene, Diego confronts a group...
...official French entry at last May's Cannes Festival, La Guerre was withdrawn from competition under pressure from Spain. It is easy to see why: the villain of the piece is all too clearly the Franco government. Yet as Jorge Semprun's script makes clear, the revolutionists are not precisely heroes either. In the film's most insightful scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future...
...Western diplomat once described Houari Boumediene as a man you had to stumble over to notice in a crowded room. At such comments, Boumediene will blush to the roots of his reddish hair. Tall, withdrawn, wraithlike, the army colonel is an authentic revolutionary, but he has so little taste for haranguing crowds that he usually gives his speeches in classical Arabic, which most Algerians do not understand. "Believe me," he is wont to remark, "I don't like the role...
...watershed in postwar history. NATO was meeting for the last time in Paris. No longer would the long black limousines, flags fluttering from their fenders, thread their way along the elegant Avenue Foch to the organization's austere glass-and-steel headquarters. Charles de Gaulle had withdrawn France from NATO's military commands and ordered NATO forces to leave French soil by next April. Consequently, the military arm of NATO was moving to a village in southern Belgium; the civil arm to some prefabricated buildings near Brussels' airport...