Word: machine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already on the scene, and central to the play, meet at the house of Geoffrey Carson (David Langton), a mine owner. Dick Wagner (John Thaw) is a gruff yet engaging Australian. He is soon scooped by Jacob Milne (Peter Machin), an idealistic cub reporter who has interviewed the inaccessible rebel leader...
When De Gaulle was out of power, he liked to describe the continual shifts of Ministers in the Fourth Republic's Cabinets by saying, "Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force...