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<text id=94TT0169>
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Feb. 14, 1994: Died:Pierre Boulle
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Feb. 14, 1994 Are Men Really That Bad?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 18
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<p> DIED. PIERRE BOULLE, 81, French novelist; in Paris. An engineer
who went to work on a rubber plantation in Malaya during the
late 1930s, Boulle plumbed his World War II experiences in Indochina
as a resistance fighter and prisoner of war to fill many of
his moral-philosophical adventure tales with precise, vivid,
details. The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952), chronicling
the plight of British pows building a bridge for the Japanese,
was perhaps the most famous of his 30 or so books; the 1957
film adaptation, which Boulle wrote, garnered several Academy
Awards, including Best Picture. The film adaptation of Planet
of the Apes, Boulle's 1963 science-fiction novel, spawned sequels
and a TV series as well as the sight of Charlton Heston in a
loincloth.
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