Word: boum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is because though the point may seem crucial to the narrative, it is actually insignificant thematically. What is important is, of all things, the echo. " 'Boum' is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or 'bou-oum,' or 'ou-boum'?utterly dull," is the way Forster rather unhelpfully describes...
...level of meaninglessness, symbolized India. The echo, in the novel, speaks thus: " 'Pathos, piety, courage?they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the comment would have been the same?'ou-boum...
...stimulate a mass taste for the Gallic product, Toscan du Plantier's company is planning a February release of one of its biggest hits, La Boum, which can be compared to the Gidget movies that appealed to American teen-agers in the '60s. Similar films will follow, all dubbed into English, and by the end of 1983, there will be, inevitably, something called La Boum II. By 1984, presumably, Toscan du Plantier will know whether he has a La Boum III or Le Bust...