Word: gallicly
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...know that for the President of the republic, those who voted Socialist or Communist are as French as anyone else-equal members of a national community." Deploring the "excessive division of the country," he pledged to bring leftists "on the sidelines" into active participation in the government. In a Gallic turn of phrase that may prove historic, Giscard declared: "It is time to achieve what I might call reasonable cohabitation...
...displaying a Gallic idiosyncrasy or an American one? Both. Is that his business, not anyone else's? Yes. Is name changing an American quirk? Absolutely, says this SuperAmerican. Look at Natasha Gurdin (Natalie Wood); Marcus Rothkowitz (Mark Rothko); Michael Igor Peschkowsky (Mike Nichols). If Columbus had hung around, he might have called himself Collins. By the end of the volume does the reader feel a giddy temptation to throw away his own first name and mess around with the letters of the rest? As De Gramont-Morgan proves, that requires a lot of thought. - S. Wok (formerly John Skow...
...Estaing and Premier Raymond Barre privately predicted a center-right win-by a narrow margin. But the left still led the center-right parties by about 50% to 46% in the latest polls, and there were plainly still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when French customs officials nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems in his luggage...
...least of psychoanalytic melodrama. But Tacchella seems to be convinced that eccentricity is the best measure of our humanity, some thing to be treasured and explored rather than deplored. His way is simply to record in quick sketches each little absurdity his camera catches, give a rueful Gallic shrug and move briskly on. If such a thing is possible, he is profoundly unprofound. People, he says, are prisoners of their generally misinformed ideas about themselves and about what constitutes happiness. But there is a cheery Catch-22: in their waywardness people probably do themselves no more harm, and very possibly...
...rattrapage (catching up), English-speaking Canadians retained their dominant role in business. Among the 105 largest private companies in Quebec, only 14 have a majority of French-speaking directors; in the other 91, only 9% of directors are Francophones. French remained the dominant language on the factory floor, where Gallic Quebeckers held disproportionate numbers of the lowest-paying jobs. English was the tongue of management. Some French Quebeckers felt that they were being treated as "the white niggers of America"?and in their homeland to boot...