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...Boers or Lord Salisbury, but never in conflict with themselves. But to a Churchill freak like myself, any kind of visual stimuli is welcome which recalls a man whose abilities would put any post-war American politician to shame, particularly the current resident of the White House who is fond of comparing himself to Churchill when he isn't calling Nguyen Van Thieu the Churchill the Churchill of Asia...
...with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit to the Brown home in Wales. There he gradually, but inevitably, falls in love with Muriel. Anne's younger sister. Romantic adolescent, unsure, Claude proposes marriage. Muriel wavers. Mothers...
...equal in death," said Snow. "They are not born equal." It is nonsense, he continued, to think humans are born as blank sheets of paper to be filled in by parents, teachers and circumstances. After talking, Snow sipped tea, nibbled sandwiches, and allowed that he is very fond of the U.S. "I like the enormous intelligence of the people, the astonishing variety of virtue and skill. The top echelons of Leicester wouldn't compare with the top echelons of, say, Akron, Ohio...
...year, is a natty, silver-haired executive who joined the agency in 1955 as chief of broadcast-time buying. A former radio announcer, he still speaks in the sepulchral tones that he used for Duffy's Tavern and other shows. Seymour is a prudent man who is fond of saying things like "Every breeze is not a wind of change." Despite Thompson's problems, Seymour insists, the agency is "now back on the track...
...films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them back to Tokyo, they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed...