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Taking off his suitcoat, he lashed out (verbally) at "the money boys" who have "cowed Tennessee Williams;" and he then characterized professional training in acting as "training in imitation of English semi-homosexual productions...
...symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle's way of life, and his very preoccupation reveals sympathy, if anything...
...unexpectedly high development costs of Philco's new computers; in 1961's first half, Philco lost $4,400,000 on sales of $196 million. Nonetheless, well-run Ford was sufficiently impressed with Philco's management that no major shakeups are planned; Philco will operate as a semi-autonomous Ford subsidiary...
Extended Authority. As the Gaullist government in Algeria grinds slowly to a halt, the shadow government of the European ultras grows stronger. The European street mobs of May 1958, and the semi-soldiers of 1960's "barricades" week, were loudmouthed braggarts who usually gave away their plans long in advance. Today's ultras are well organized, disciplined, tough. Their spearhead is the S.A.O. (Secret Army Organization), an underground movement commanded by French officers who supported last April's four-day putsch led by ex-Generals Raoul Salan and Maurice Challe...
People in the Peace Corps office itself were also enthusiastic, but warned of the possibility of an amendment that would take the Corps out of its semi-autonomous position in the State Department, and put it into the foreign aid program and ICA. The effect of such a move, many feel, would be to negate the spirit of personal aid and service that the original sponsors envisaged, and make the Corps just another propaganda weapon in the cold...