Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Because of Lamumba's wide following, Omuko pointed out, the Congo situation will grow "continually worse" if he is killed. Lumumba is presently being held by Mobutu's army. The West should make sure that the U.N. acts to release him, Omuko said.
In event of Lumumba's death, many of the African states which have sent aid into the Congo may possibly withdraw from the U.N. Command in the Congo, Omuko indicated, stressing the importance of the Premier's safety.
Despite the ideological, artistic, and legal disputes which confused and nearly stopped the making of the film version of Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper, the movie is a brilliant success. It was Brecht himself who nearly ruined the film, for between 1928, when he wrote the play, and 1931, when...
Although Pabst accepted most of the plot revisions upon which Brecht insisted, Brecht quite rightly felt that the movie served to undercut rather than to preach the propaganda, and he sued for an injunction to stop the film from being released. He lost the suit, was paid handsomely for the...
Brecht's most basic plot revisions are of the end of the movie. The gallows scene and reprieve are cut, and instead Mack the Knife escapes from jail and becomes the head of a prominent banking house which Polly has bought for him. He takes as partners Polly's father...