Word: maudits
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...Bolaño moved to Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked...
...France under the title Gazon Maudit (which translates literally as Cursed Lawn--never mind!), the movie breaks the rules of farce; its characters begin as caricatures, then fill out into complex people whose openness to love surprises no one more than themselves. Brisk and sassy, French Twist gives great fun. It's a nice way to start the movie year: in bed with three genial lunatics...
...that emerged nearly as soon as it did, Lautrec is a myth -- the crippled, dwarfish child of aristocratic birth, condemned to deformity by his own family's inbreeding, who defied his father and fled from the confines of his class to join the outcasts in Montmartre, becoming the peintre maudit of French bohemia, recording its life and seedy joys as no artist had ever done and dying, at last, of drink at 36. What a recipe...
...dwarfish cripple of exalted birth, absinthe-sodden and dead at 37, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was perhaps the most spectacular peintre maudit of the late 19th century: a doomed dog of modernism, fit for Hollywood. No reputation can quite survive a movie like Moulin Rouge, and ever since its release in 1953 the popular image of Toulouse-Lautrec has been shaped by the sight of Jose Ferrer, legs bound, peering with lugubriously feigned interest up at the boiler-plated buttocks of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Thus Toulouse-Lautrec became one of the few artists most everyone has heard of, a guarantee...
...Jean-Claude Killy, 22: the men's giant slalom in the international High Sierra ski cup races; at Heavenly Valley, Calif. Beaten by his French teammate, Georges Maudit, in another giant slalom race the day before, Killy zipped through the 57 gates in 1 min. 32 sec. to beat Maudit by 1 sec. Another French skier, Leo LaCroix, finished third, and the top American, California's Jimmy Heuga, wound up fourth...