Word: oui
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...Sweet Smell" is noir, oui - but as brisk as the winter nights on which Sidney refuses to wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their...
...Sang “La Marseillaise.” Oui, je suis français. Pour quoi...
...abroad find English speakers at almost every airport, hotel and restaurant, and foreign executives are often impressively fluent. Even the French, after decades of trying to muzzle phrases like le weekend, seem weary of the fight. In a poll conducted by the European Commission, 66% of French respondents said oui when asked if all continentals should speak what's dubbed la langue du Coca-Cola...
...When you wrote captions for Oui, did you ever throw in the names of people you knew just to piss them...
...Back in '76, OUI charges were removed from the driver's record six years after the offense occurred...