Word: mots
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...beautiful movie. The beauty is not of the slick sort that many commercial directors so easily mass-produce nowadays, but instead it evolves from the way Chabrol's cameras treat the spatial relationships between persons and things. It's as if the director turned the literary search for the mot juste into cinemagraphic terms and then succeeded in his quest. The excellence of technique is hardly for its own sake; like the most mature directors Chabrol has subtly integrated it into the whole of the work so that it doesn't infringe on the film's other component parts...
Apple-Shaped. All the while, under this gaudily and rather unprepos-sessingly romantic Flaubert, another Flaubert was straining to break out -the pointed, pitiless observer of reality whose ambition was to clear away the vapors of the romantic novel in the cold clear rays of le mot juste. Here he is, describing a dancing girl named Kuchuk as she begins her writhings: "A tall splendid creature . . . When she bends, her flesh ripples into bronze ridges . . . heavy shoulders, full apple-shaped breasts . . . She has one upper incisor, right, which is beginning...
...typical, alas, Powers bon mot: When the "three-decker Irishman" from Charlestown met the Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, he asked, "Tell me, are you the real Mikoyan...
...Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. Everybody needs an editor. Besides, the FÜhrer was that kind of fellow. But T.S. Eliot! Could that austere poet's most celebrated work actually have sprung from sweaty sessions with pencil stubs and mutual gropings after the mot juste! It has always been painful to imagine, even though for 50 or so years Ezra Pound has been acknowledged as much more than The Waste Land's literary godfather...
...plaintiff, Controleur Général de Police Michel Gonzales, was confident that no judge would uphold the defendant. In polite society, after all, one never even says merde outright but le mot de Cambronne, a reference to the same word used by a Napoleonic general when the British suggested that he surrender at Waterloo...