Word: gallicism
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Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and mutter a few Gallic epithets. But Gangji, 41, one of the top professional umpires in tennis, chose to ignore this final frisson of petulance...
...they said, too remote, too snooty. But as First Lady she came into her own. Charles de Gaulle arrived in the U.S. with his nose in the air; he considered Jackie empty and much too beau monde. But he was attracted to her. What exquisite French! Such sound Gallic genes...
...diet-crazy U.S., Montignac, 49, might be shrugged off as yet another media-hyped Dr. Feelgood. But in France, the former pharmaceutical-company executive has made a mint telling Gallic gourmands what they want to hear. His empire, dubbed "La Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives...
...Gallic propensity for philosophizing really brought the French closer to understanding this thing called happiness? The U.N. once formulated a 12-point list of prerequisites for being happy that includes one radio, one bicycle and one set of kitchen utensils per family. But after such items have been acquired, what then? That leaves the field to the pollsters, who have attempted to catalog the many flavors of felicity by quizzing citizens around the world on whether they are "satisfied" with their jobs, "fulfilled" with their sex lives and "at ease" with themselves...
Interspersed throughout the novel are embarrassing attempts at Gallic philosophizing. This too often emerges as juvenile, stream-of-consciousness rambling. Henrietta, asked to justify her subject matter, responds...