Word: gibbon
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...primary symbol of France today is an image, from the movie screen, of a young man slouching in a cafe chair, his socks sagging over broken shoelaces, his shirt open to the waist, his arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles drag. A Gauloise rests in his gibbon lips and its smoke meanders from his attractively broken, Z-shaped nose.-See SHOW BUSINESS, Breathless...
...been demoted to secondary symbols of France. The primary symbol is an image of a young man slouching in a cafe chair, his socks sagging over broken shoelaces, his shirt open to the waist, his arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles drag. A Gauloise rests in his gibbon lips, and its smoke meanders from his attractively broken, Z-shaped nose. Out of the Left Bank by the New Wave, he is Jean-Paul Bel-mondo-the natural son of the Existentialist conception, standing for everything and nothing at 738 m.p.h...
Alfred also expressed approval of the proposed redivision of Gen Ed courses, which would classify history as a "Humanity." "Somebody like Gibbon ought to be part of English literature," he said...
...Fall of the Roman Empire. Chopped into five or six half-hour parts, this movie could serve for that all but vanished art form, the Saturday afternoon serial. It might not top Tarzan of the Apes, but as a Child's Garden of Gibbon it obstreperously fills the bill. There are poisonings, chariot races, hairbreadth escapes, and slaughtered barbarians enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty ten-year...
...monumental history, Gibbon described the decline of Rome as "the natural and inevitable effect of immod erate greatness." To this fifth of the Bronston spectaculars (which include 55 Days at Peking and El Cid), the same charge might be applied...