Word: canard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris, the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé last week suggested the title for a new and presumably sweaty exploitation film, Histoire d'Eau, showing that even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about...
With Rubinstein, Horowitz and Richter still around, this is not exactly a poor age for the piano. But no need to fear the historians' old canard about each epoch of artistic plenty being followed by drought. The best of today's pianists are already being pressed by some younger challengers, among them Vladimir Ashkenazy, 38, the Russian-born star who now lives in Iceland, and Italy's Maurizio Pollini, 34. They, in turn, have to look over their shoulders at even younger contenders...
...turning out something like Throat, they promise to add Gallic subtlety to what they think is crude American formula. The radicals used to complain that French life was a dull blend of "Métro, Boulot and Dodo"-subway, work and sleep. Now, says the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchalne, the slogan is "Métro, Boulot, Dodo et Porno...
...terribly excited." ∎ President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, promised to give the French a relaxed political style when he was elected last May. Now the French are wondering what he meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily...
...Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson's addled state or to suspect the young Meyer of a deceitful forgery...