Word: gallicisms
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...evah had who doesn't have an accent." Some are moderately malicious. Vice President Humphrey greets the President: "Morning, Lyndon, how are you?" To which Lyndon replies: "Is that all you ever think of, Hubert?" Mostly however, the current jokes on Johnson are almost as acidulous as Gallic gags about Charles de Gaulle. Oddly enough, they also deride the messianic trait that-if nothing else-both leaders have in common. They could be called Lyndon B. Attitudes. Samples...
...File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising reader, 1965 Harvard Graduate Roy Cobb, recently rediscovered Sax Rohmer, whose Fu Manchu books, he predicts, are a sure bet for rediscovery-at least by the camp set. But some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated...
...questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris-by-night tour-through the sewers, over the roofs, and into transvestite dens. For some Parisian reason, all the bad guy's spies are chestnut vendors. Another nice Gallic touch: as the heroine is about to be chained to the wall and whipped by a neo-Nazi sadist, she takes time out to lament that she missed her lunch...
...this abrupt shift of mood, what began as a polished Gallic satire of bourgeois sex and morality suddenly becomes inflamed with black Spanish fury. Director Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana) is the powerful talent whose vision dominates this corrosive, meticulously detailed film based on the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel resets the story in the 1920s and tips Mirbeau's well-aimed shafts with poison. But in the end, Diary seems inconclusive, a series of vivid sketches only partially held together by Buñuel's enlightened misanthropy...
...HOUSE. Director Rene Clement (Purple Noon) mixes chills with chuckles in an absurd but enjoyable thriller about a Gallic gigolo (Alain Delon) who eludes assassins on the Riviera, only to fall into the clutches of a coltish femme fatale (Jane Fonda...