Word: julien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
EDWARD P. JULIEN...
Died. Dr. Julien Besangon, 90, celebrated French specialist in longevity, who attributed his own long life to "wine, women, and tobacco"; of a heart attack; in the Paris apartment of his longtime friend, Hélène Oliveires, 51, whom he once described as "a woman who asks no questions, and knows how to dress and please...
...Died. Julien Lahaut, 65, boss of Belgium's Communists, deputy in Parliament since 1937 (TIME, Aug. 21); shot and killed by unidentified assailants; in his home in Seraing, Belgium...
Baudouin was about to take the oath of allegiance to the constitution when a piercing cry rang through the hall: "Vive la République!" The cry had been voiced by Julien Lahaut, white-maned president of the Belgian Communist Party. His shocked fellow deputies (who wanted to get rid of Leopold, not of the monarchy) broke into hurried applause for Baudouin. The prince blushed furiously, his eyes downcast. Finally order was restored and Baudouin managed to say: "I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people...