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...psychological block against bearing another one ever since. 'Gaining status and respectability' for the godfather, Jean, means becoming so broad-boned and stern-faced, so outwardly tailored to a style of bureaucratic modishness, that when he tries to behave like a kid again he comes off looking like a fool...
...smile into a leer, and when he finally holds Veronique's passive head on his shoulder, patting her hair and closing his eyes, his emotional wince seems to say stupidly "God, I'm sensitive, God, I'm sensitive." (If you've ever seen Anthony Newley sing "What Kind of Fool...
...might be one instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool...
...playing bedeviled headmasters, bungling sleuths and dotty bishops (he officiated at Peter O'Toole's wedding in The Ruling Class), Sim deftly dodged interviews. But he once let it be known that it was revealed to him "many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right...
...capers. He would order dinner in a restaurant, refuse to pay the bill and then identify himself as Philippe. Once he stole a truck, and it was Philippe who found himself answering police questions. Just two weeks ago, Philippe encountered some sailors who told him he had made a fool of himself in a barroom brawl the night before (when, of course, he had been home...