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...that life was crisscrossed with theft like an old coat with grey threads." See BOOKS, A Legend Exhumed...
Summer rains swept the green countryside of the Ile-de-France. Splashing sheets of water, Charles de Gaulle's presidential cortege barreled along the cobbled lanes under sodden chestnut and plane trees, past grey stone farmhouses and into crossroad hamlets where the faithful waited-schoolchildren holding limp paper flags, white-haired women huddled under umbrellas, village mayors draped with tricolored sashes of office. Disdainfully hatless and coatless, the rain plastering his hair to his pink scalp, De Gaulle plunged into the crowds, grasping outstretched hands...
When he feels the need to meditate, King Hassan goes to the mountains. He was there last week, at Ifrane, in a grey stone palace surrounded by ilex trees, where he could picnic with friends beside a brook or cast March brown flies to the rainbow trout flashing in the clear water...
...staircase, over workmen and plaster, and into the sunlight of the first floor. "My," a Reunioner whispered, "I hope the air conditioning never goes off." Babcock was showing them the TV studio, the IBM room, and the teaching machine room when the bells from neighboring Christ Church, an old grey building with windows, rang...
...Jeanne Moreau. And except for some wonderfully grey and wintry views of Venice, this long, turgid melodrama has little else to recommend it. Made in Italy in 1962 by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant), Eva describes how a malicious, luxury-class harlot (Moreau) coolly destroys a famous Welsh author (Stanley Baker) who never amounted to much in the first place. The man is a loser whose reputation rests on a novel he stole from his dead brother. By the time the woman finishes with him, his exquisite wife (Virna Lisi) has committed suicide and the writer is reduced to loud...