It is as if the director had something he wanted to say but is pulling his punches: this is a film of ideas that remain schematic and of sensuality that remains ideal.

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Germany will never be as centralised as Britain or France, but if people have something to say to a national audience they tend increasingly to say it in Berlin.

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When the photo session was over, Rousselot gave him two bills and all the coins in his pocket, and then the pair of them stood there together, as if there were something more to be said but neither of them dared say it.

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There had been a lingering silence and he broke it to mention this trouble in his family, as if he thought that someone should say something.

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The fear, though, is of a further increase in inflation if prices are brought, as economists say they should be, up to the cost of domestic production, something like 20 cents a litre.

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She went on to read modern Chinese with Japanese at Durham University where she was described as a bright, capable, "lively" student who would always speak out if she had something to say.

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