Word: perch
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When Sorbonne students spot an empty lecture hall, they rush in like beggars after a tycoon's cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...
...This time the two wound up their nip-tucking session at a West Side Manhattan joint. 'Long about 2 a.m. "Sinat" suddenly awarded his 240-lb. pal a few friendly shoulder smacks and a greeting: "Hi ya, Blub." Silence. Then, slowly, The Blub toppled backwards off his perch. "I don't really remember what happened," confesses Toots. But his right wrist broke the fall, then broke itself. Though plastered into a cast for six weeks (complete with evening scarf sling), Toots stiffly states: "Booze is beautiful-with either hand...
...when they tried to talk propaganda, American MPs moved them along. Overhead, flocks of doves, of which Koreans are particularly fond, darted about-but even they were involved in the nasty little frontier cold war. The Communists, before releasing them from the dovecot, had carefully trained the birds to perch only on their own green-painted roofs, not on the blue U.N. buildings...
...famous and successful author. To Charrier's amazement, Reyer and his stunning wife (Stephane Audran) make him feel so at home in their luxurious villa that he soon has a latch-key familiarity with the couple. This sudden rescue from loneliness should make Charrier happy; instead, watching Stephane perch adoringly on the arm of her husband's chair, Charrier decides that he must spoil things for them. Snooping on Stephane when she makes daytime trips to Munich, he discovers that she has a lover. Charrier takes photographs of them embracing on street corners, behind shop windows. He shows...
...original are worked in, along with a few members of the cast. Hollywood's Ann-Margret, a too authentic 21, is a mighty big girl to be playing a 16-year-old. But her frisky dancing and cheery chirpings do help to keep Birdie from falling off the perch...