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Word: french (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admit it, you've been giving cufflinks to your uncle for the last five years. He's bored with cufflinks and he's probably gotten too paunchy for his French cuff shirts anyway. It's time for something new. Perhaps you could try getting him something to read. You could get him Gunther Grass's novel Flounder which is all about food and the history of male-female relationships since pre-historic times. I imagine that it would help if your uncle happened to be a Freudian psychologist, all that food-sex imagery, but what the hell, he'll probably...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Debutante, n. [from the French debut, or beginning]: a young woman making her formal entrance into society...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Pretty Maids All in a Row | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Friedkin, who won an Academy Award in 1972 for directing "The French Connection," and directed "The Exorcist," said that filming the $12 million comedy "Brink's" was more difficult than filming a thriller. "You can make people react to a car chase," he said, but "comedy is a very ephemeral thing. It's hard to make an audience laugh...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Friedkin Talks on Brink's Film; Falk and DeLaurentiis Cancel | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

Friedkin cited "The French Connection" car chase scene in which unplanned crashes were used in the final film. "Comedies need more precision," he said. "There's very little improvisation...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Friedkin Talks on Brink's Film; Falk and DeLaurentiis Cancel | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

Four stores, the Coop, Harvard Book Store, Paperback Booksmith, and Words Worth, cited "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French, a novel whose story begins in a Sever Hall restroom and goes on to study women of this generation, as a heavy seller...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Stores Report Feminist Books Popular | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

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