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...burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took a little hock; 4) we went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take two-came with the Stilton cheese. Then we adjourned for a little fruit and some Cockburn '35-great port, that. 6) Some time later-around two in the morning-we decided...
...Clos-ed, Beat...
...group also has rights to Robert Briffault's translation of existentialist Jean Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos." The three-character play was put on in London last season under the title "The Vicious Circle" and met with wide acclaim...
...occupation created a new theater public: people desperately needing escape were chained to Paris but cheated of the U.S. movies they had doted on. But their war experiences bred in them more serious tastes, which accounts for such recent highbrow hits as Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, Near-Existentialist Albert Camus' Caligula (headed for Broadway), T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...