Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...aftermath of De Gaulle's turbulent five-day visit, two things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
Some 3,100 years ago, the Aegean island of Chryse (pronounced Cry-see) soared rocketlike into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances...
Part Three describes the tragic aftermath of independence, the events that swiftly led up to civil war between Jews and Arabs. Then comes the one big structural defect of the production. Just as the war begins, the picture ends. Many moviegoers will feel cheated of a climax -but then they might feel even more upset if the picture went on for another four hours...
...field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable experience, and seem to suffer no aftermath...
...aftermath is merely delayed. Two months later it becomes apparent to the village doctor that every Midwich woman of fertile years is pregnant-apparently without the assistance of a man. What, the village wonders, was responsible for the mysterious impersonal rape of Midwich. for this ominous plural parthenogenesis? What great beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Midwich to be born...