Word: gallicisms
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...well have been the terrorists the prosecution claimed they were, but the trial itself was a form of terrorism. The judge was indifferent, the lawyers made irrelevant speeches laced with quotations from French classics, the evidence was spotty and insufficient, the punishment too rough. Said one official with nice Gallic illogic: "It isn't the last word, there'll be an amnesty some...
CAPRI: BREATHLESS has been deposited on these shores by France's fast receding nouvelle vague. Jean-Paul Belmondo gives a magnificent portrait of modern Gallic decadence; Jean Seberg, type cast as ever, is his dumb-blonde American moll. Evenings...
...maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening brandy with his jazzmen and some 50 new fans...
...With Gallic grace, the French colonials joined in the almost weekly Laotian festivals. They range in riotousness from the spring fertility rites known as Bang Fai, when the men wave bamboo poles topped with phallic symbols and copulating puppets and the girls look on and giggle, to New Year's, when the King's elephants are gathered and lectured on good conduct. Many a Frenchman learned to play Laos' unchaperoned game of love, conducted to the music of khen pipes, and one French administrator in southern Laos chopped down all bridges into his domain once a year...
Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...