Word: gallicisms
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...personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers I know love their childhood," he writes, thus disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some narrative accounts of his adventures in the French Resistance and elsewhere, and long replays of longer interviews with Mao Tse-tung and Nehru, both of whom he visited in 1965 not only as a former fellow revolutionary...
...down or throw something at the house." He and Eunice put it back in its proper place. "Now," he says, "it's there above the door every day, and nothing's happened." The once well-manicured lawn has been turned into a badminton court, to the Gallic gardeners' profound dismay. The residence's ornate furniture has either been shoved aside or put in storage. The walls are now covered with paintings by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Georgia O'Keeffe, plus a collection of Indians by George Catlin and Roy Lichtenstein's pop portrait...
...weird than her usual blend of native wit and updated Colette. The characters and setting are American, but Dorothy Seymour, Hollywood scriptwriter, may as well be one of Sagan's Parisian cocottes: she wears St. Laurent copies, vacations on the Riviera, suffers liver attacks and has a quintessentially Gallic attitude toward love. Her latest suitor, Paul Brett, is another familiar Sagan figure, the older protector, handsome, successful, slightly triste-well he may be, putting up, as he does, with the fickle, indiscreet heroine...
...French, they run a funny race. Give them somebody else's genre-Hitchcock suspense, slapstick à la Sennett-and they can dominate the field. But ask them to run on their own course-amour, with plenty of gallic-and, pouf!, they fall apart...
...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...