Word: ou
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are eight "great themes" for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the new studies. The big themes (based on a study of 150 westerns): 1) the birth of a nation, 2) gold prospecting, 3) the frontier and the great plains, 4) the linking of east and west, 5) men and beasts, 6) the War of Secession, 7) Indian warfare, 8) representative westerners...
...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...
...Pierre made a pilgrimage to a quiz program, Quitte ou Double (Double or Nothing). He was accepted as a contestant and after a few questions had a stack of francs. Yes, he said, he would try another question. "What is the meaning of F.A.O.?" the master of ceremonies asked. "Food and Agriculture Organization," answered the priest. "Right. Do you want to go on?" asked the M.C. Abbé Pierre made a rapid calculation. "No," he said. The Abbé had 256,000 francs ($730), and the junk business had its first truck...
...Mais ou sent les nues d'antan?" mused Pierre, left bank expatriate, as he wandered forlornly through Scollay Square last night...