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...passed through Holyoke Center, on its way to a tour of the Quincy House hallways, Jeanray Robert, a Belgian architect, loudly informed his wife that he was going to the Coop to buy a Harvard sweatshirt instead. He said he was tired to walking around, and that "ils sont fous! (the group is crazy...

Author: By M. BRETT Gladstone and Richard S. Weisman, S | Title: It Was Tuesday... They Must Have Been Belgian | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

Revolutionary Refrain. Offstage, Pierre Antoine Muraccioli, 21, is not at all in the same alienated, humorless bag with his U.S. precursors. His constant refrain is "Je m'en fous" (I don't give a damn) but actually he does; he spends his days conscientiously studying engineering. "I don't figure on revolutionizing the world," he says. Obviously he is enjoying it too much to change it. After graduation, he figures on packing his guitar and Puccis for a fall concert tour of the States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: C'est la Hair | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

When a cop turned up, another of the gunmen cut him down with two shots. An onlooker intervened to help the wounded policeman, and one of the hoods said: "Fous le camp (Buzz off)." He did, and they did too. Several hours later, police found the stolen Citroën. In it were two Tommy guns, five pistols, two lead pipes, a grenade, and a lingering air of smug satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monaco: Big Deal on Casino Street | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...vision of apocalypse comes often in that inch of cards beheaded "Eccentric literature," and who is the more sane, the compiler of L'Histoire litteraire des fous or the author of "The basic outline of universology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drawer 1336 | 4/23/1964 | See Source »

...Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in a Booby Hatch) is about two yellow-fanged old hags who are miffed at a new inmate because she is young and pretty. While one harridan pinions the newcomer's wrists, the other wrenches back her head and plunges long scissors into her eye. "La! La!" she cries happily as gore spatters in all directions. When the hags have a difference of opinion, one shoves her pal against a red-hot stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Murders in the Rue Chaptal | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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