Whisker
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The attack coincided with a major international crisis that brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a
whisker
of nuclear war over the stealthy deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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This is one of the Great ones: In terms of French cinema in the first full decade of Sound it belongs right up there with Marius, Fanny, Cesar, Quai des Brumes, Le Jour se leve, La Femme du boulanger, La Grande Illusion and you can't put anything higher than that though Duvivier's own La Belle equipe and Pepe Le Moko both come within a
whisker.
Altogether, this is an influential, highly entertaining grisly sci fi horror classic, just a
whisker
away from the directors superlative later work.
However reluctantly, Silvio Berlusconi accepted in the end that he had lost, if just by a whisker, as did Viktor Orban in Hungary.
Yanukovych’s “Party of the Regions” has been leading in opinion polls for months, and the world should remember that Yushchenko’s ultimate triumph over him in 2004 was by a whisker, not a landslide.
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