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...film's bitter finale, Signoret hopelessly pounds the pavement on a rainy night in Rome, bragging, jeered at, and aged so noticeably that one motorist splashes right by her to pick up a greener jade. The scene is played to perfection but to no avail. Made in 1960, Love is both dubbed (Italian for French) and flubbed. Director Antonio Pietrangeli squanders several major talents on a saccharine social tract in which the line between solving problems and pandering to them remains handily blurred...
...size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College, Dr. A.R.C. Jones is grafting European pines onto Canadian trees to produce a greener, fuller tree that will retain its needles longer...
...before the film whirs to a muddled flat-broke finish, Actress Moreau forcefully demonstrates the verve, style and flamboyant femaleness that make her the envy of European sex symbols much greener in years and cooler in blood. Her wicked, winning presence has saved many a bad movie from utter oblivion, and at 36 she knows how to turn Bay of the Angels into a one-woman show. Puffy, painted, clacking along on spike heels, bouncy blonde curls screaming Miami bleach, she seems to have been blackjacked by destiny in a thousand side-street hotels. If she loses her train fare...
This is Tshombe's salient characteristic: his ability to bounce from ally to ally, from attitude to attitude, from obective to objective. He is not a colonialist tool; He is just an opportunist who once thought the grass would be greener on the colonialist side of the fence. His lack of devotion to principle is not unique in Congo politics; nor is his lack of morality. But in a country of dubious political figures, he has been the slimiest and the most amphibious...
...thousands of tourists and happily shares its year-round sunshine with courtesans in bikinis as well as desert Arabs in burnooses. But Beirut's most beneficent climate is the climate of trade, the heritage of its Phoenician forebears. In the Levantine landscape nothing seems to grow faster or greener than the city's banks...