Word: expliquez
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...Please expliquez (in one-syllable English words, of course) to us crude, unlettered, simplistic, insensitive, baffled and somewhat defensive middle-class folk from the outback why it is chic to dissent, but merely gauche (or is it camp?) to dissent from dissenters...
...four p.m. Sunday [at the Autumn Salon] a thousand gaping people had passed through the Salle Picasso and some three hundred were in the room, when from one corner arose repeated shouts of "'Dérochez!" ("Take 'em down!"), answered by shouts from another corner, "Expliquez!" ("Explain!"), and from a third quarter, "Remboursez!" ("Money back!"). Numerous young men began carefully and nondestructively taking down the pictures from the wall...
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