Word: finning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance...
...Thief of Paris. The outlaw has been an object of fascination for the French cinema from Pepe le Moko to La Guerre Est Finie. In Thief, the subject for study is Jean-Paul Belmondo, an impenitent housebreaker operating in the gleaming fin de siecle Paris...
...best." Still to be heard from is another challenger: Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup winner, now owned by Californian Pat Dougan and remodeled at a cost of $125,000 last year. According to Olin Stephens, who drew the plans, she is 75% new: a "skeg," or fin, has been added to her bottom to make her stiffer in the water, her stern has been shortened 2 ft. 5 in., her deck has been replaced, and her mast has been stepped aft about 1 ft. so that she can fly a bigger genoa. Now en route by freighter...
...BOSTON COLLEGE ab r h rbi O'N'll 5 1 0 0 Rob'n 5 0 1 1 Amick 4 1 1 0 Fin'll 3 0 1 1 S'mon 4 0 1 0 Kitley 2 1 0 0 Plunk't 4 0 0 0 Maher 4 0 0 0 O'Br'n 3 0 2 0 Graham 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...book, he explains, follows the four-cycle theory of history devised by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1774), in which human societies progress through the four stages of theocracy, aristocracy, democracy and ricorso (or recurrence). The title of the book is itself a Joycean wordplay. "Finn (fin or finis) -egan" could mean "end again," suggesting the completion of Vico's cycle, while "Wake" suggests rising from sleep, or beginning life again...