Word: bourgeoise
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So the young bank clerk, Claude Mann, gets hooked on the game. He goes with his friend to a casino near Paris, where sounds echo off bleak, cold walls that resemble an early-morning subway station. Claude wins the equivalent of six months' salary in 10 minutes. He breaks with...
And then there was Hope Diamond, heh, heh. After the adhesive tape problem had been solved the conversation turned once more to Gibran and bourgeois morality. "I think of myself as a girl telling a story. While I'm up there, I'm completely un-self-conscious...a lot of...
As an actress, Capucine is a late starter. Her petit bourgeois French family wanted her to be a schoolteacher.
Fast-moving businessmen now get quicker visas at airports because the Communist countries have markedly relaxed travel restrictions this year. Once they arrive, the salesmen usually head directly for the ministries that they want to sell to; anybody from a well-known company can win a quick audience. Competition among...
Voters in the decadent bourgeois states might not consider that much of a choice, but the privilege of crossing out two names on a twelve-man ballot held obvious appeal for the average East German. Perhaps too obvious, decided Ulbricht at the last minute. Fearing that the voters might go...