Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Brazil, Director Camus soon ran out of money. He slept on the beach to save hotel bills, lived from meal to meal, worked from reel to reel. Down to his last $17, he was rescued by Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, who told the army to get him...
The meaning of the old story, as Director Camus sees it, is that love and death and rebirth, with all their decisive importance for the individual, are mere incidents in the larger process of life. Camus' image of life is the tropical carnival-random, unprincipled, delirious. And the spirit...
Along with most of the arts in France, the cinema spent a long postwar period in the doldrums. But when De Gaulle came to power, his government announced that it did not intend to send good screen subsidies after the same old bad ideas. Reluctantly, French film producers, who are...
They loved it. The Cheaters, a fairly daring film about les blousons noirs (the black jackets, as the French call their juvenile delinquents), was made on the cheap by an oldtimer named Marcel Carne (Children of Paradise), and it became one of the biggest hits of 1958. It was followed...
"I was," reports the tourist, "an angel all over the Krémlin." Decent Marxists, of course, are not supposed to believe in supernatural beings, but they might find it easier to believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza...