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Did young French demoiselles of the early 1900's fall in love exclusively with young army officers with mustaches? Or were mustaches just de rigeur for all men of the period? I found myself wondering about this during some of the less enthralling moments of The Grand Maneuver, a capricious...
Unfortunately, there is less to The Grand Maneuver than meets the eye. The plot is about what one would expect of an Italian opera buffa, and, despite the brevity of the film, one's interest in the story often wanes. The hero, Armand, is a philandering young dragoon in the...
Oddly enough, Frenchmen are supposed to be very emotional and quick to display their feelings; you certainly wouldn't say so from The Grand Maneuver. The acting was quite stolid and spiritless. M. Philippe, alternately confident and cowed, displayed a rather narrow range of emotions, and I wished at times...
The action had military, economic and political reverberations. In Washington jubilant Air Force officers said that they could now begin building two combat-equipped B-70's as well as two stripped models, start airborne tests in late 1962. On Wall Street the spending announcement set off a four...
Room for Maneuver. Within France itself, the pent-up hopes and fears of all the years burst out in an ugly backwash of bitterness. De Gaulle found himself caught between a left demanding that France negotiate peace and a right insisting that war be waged to the bitter end. In...