Word: napoleonism
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...lost the perm and moon boots, but Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder still plays the outsider as an occult-bookstore worker in Just Like Heaven...
...NAPOLEON...
...They conjure the grandeur, the spectacle, the very movieness of movies. For the French director Abel Gance, one giant screen was not enough for the story of the little Corsican corporal. Gance used a three-screen process to create mammoth murals of battles, political rallies and snowball fights, as Napoleon (Albert Dieudonné) conquers Europe...
Cool kids are wearing T shirts from last year's sleeper hit Napoleon Dynamite, starring JON HEDER as a teen outcast. The hip apparel has yet to catch on with real-life outcasts...
...absorbed in books to return to the courts, I never corrected my coach’s accusation of my wanting ambition—at just under five feet tall, I had willingly embraced the Napoleon Complex. Instead, I buried myself in my room and read for endless periods of time. There were days when the only contact I had with the outside world was the breeze traveling through the window to rustle the pages of my Rushdie masterpiece. Any new friends I made were librarians who smiled at my thirst for the written word. Visits to family cottages meant whispers...