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...bestseller Topaz. U.S. diplomats braced for a Gallic storm over it, but none materialized-perhaps because Topaz was not published in France. As of last week, all that the average Frenchman had read of the affair was some chatty, rather unalarmed accounts in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and a few other papers. Despite the Elysee Palace's determination to live above the tempest, it may not be able to maintain that altitude...
...most recent canard about the pills, fostered by the birth of octuplets in Mexico, is that after a woman stops taking them she is more likely to have a multiple pregnancy. This is not true...
...initiative based on as sensitive a subject as family structure, particularly that of Negroes, will have no difficulty devising arguments. For generations, Negroes have labored under the attribution of genetic inferiority; to raise the question of a "deviant subculture" is to invite the charge of raising the same old canard of innate differences in a more respectable guise. The subject of family introduces the subject of sex, in this instance Negro sex, an issue of intense and not always acknowledged sensitivity for all parties. The subject of broken families raises the specter of welfare cheating charges, an issue to which...
...Gaulle's Nose. Is Astérix meant to be De Gaulle? "I cannot stop people from seeing political analogies where I merely intended to be funny," says Goscinny. Yet a recent cartoon in the French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné pictured Astérix with De Gaulle's nose; he and Premier Georges "Pompidouix" are shouting "Amérix go home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their...
...imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained: "I did not burn it; and I was not disgusted. If Mr. Joyce should ever desire a testimonial as the author of a literary masterpiece from me, it shall be given with all possible emphasis and with...