Word: boudoir
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...home from Washington, Brezhnev called on French President Georges Pompidou to help allay French fears that the Soviet boss's talks with Nixon might have weakened Western European defense strategy. Despite ten hours of togetherness-mostly in what used to be Marie Antoinette's boudoir in the Château de Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris-Brezhnev failed to mention one of his pet projects: a summit meeting of all 35 leaders to approve whatever comes out of the Helsinki conference. Pompidou has made it clear that he wants to wait and see what happens...
Joey's ongoing affair with Sally is supplemented by other encounters. The Motel Lady takes him for her own, and he saunters into the boudoir of the 250-pound proprietress at her beck and call, always with the blank pleasantness we reserve for meeting long-lost aunts. The teenage unwed mother is Sally's only child, Jessie (Pat Ast), who constantly sends her mother into hysterical fits ("You're not a lesbian--it's a temporary thing!"), especially with her half-successful attempts at seducing Joey. And the standard symbolic figures of Hollywood sterility abound: the cliche-laden director...
...proprietor. After he came home again to London, Northcliffe's four phones to his papers were cut off. Yet a Daily Mail night editor received his last whispered message to the paper -Northcliffe had found a fifth phone and was calling from under his wife's boudoir table...
...Ulysses that James Joyce made it a literature unto itself. In Finnegans Wake, words become quintuple exposures; the reader has to search for a glimpse of something recognizable. In A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging to the word also are the French associations, bonder, 'to pout' and bone, 'mud.' " Not to men tion a reference to the poet Baudelaire. After...
Russell, "Harding's eroticism is naive and even pathetic as the quality of his mind peeps through the boudoir phrases. The letters, if they can be considered shocking-as some of them can -are more so because they were written by a President of the United States than through the tumescence of their content...