Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emile Zola described Les Halles as "the belly of Paris," and nobody ever coined a better phrase for the sprawling wholesale market on the Right Bank where for 800 years have flowed the meat, fowl, vegetables, dairy products, herbs, roots, fish, cheese and even flowers necessary to sustain a city...
More Than a Market. In the earlier battle of Les Halles, leading up to the 1969 démarche to Rungis, disagreement centered on a social tradition. Les Halles, after all, had become far more than a market. From midnight to dawn it was the heart of Paris as well...
When he wrote that, Ellsberg was laid up in Bangkok with a severe case of hepatitis. He felt that "the alternatives before me are to stay on with the Government in Viet Nam or to return home to research and consult: a choice between the engine room and the belly...
And then suddenly, this corpulent type is ripping his dress shirt off his sweating body, and, hell, what's that he's got on? O my God, a strike T-shirt! This guy's out there dancing in his underwear with a big, red fist stencilled on his belly. And...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in...