Word: papae
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...before 11, the Pope was borne aloft for the bobbing processional back through the Santa Marta door; outside, he stepped into his car for the brief drive to the Apostolic Palace. As he moved out of sight, blessing his visitors, the basilica echoed to the chant of "Viva il Papa, viva il Papa." Slowly the crowd drifted away; a few remained to pray and recollect. There had been no great words spoken, nor, for most of the pilgrims, any personal encounter with Roman Catholicism's ruler; yet nearly all left the basilica awed and exhilarated. "An impressive experience," said...
Back home, the proud papa had moved the rest of his family-four girls and a boy, aged 3½ to 7-to a farm outside the city, where he keeps a few cows to cut down his milk bill. "I don't make the most money in the world," he says, "and it does present some problems...
Although he is well into his 30s, Pierre spends all his time in his room studying the astronomical charts that cover the walls and furniture. His preoccupation vexes Maman and Papa, who want him to get married. It also vexes like, the Swedish maid, but since she can speak no French (even her subtitles come out in Swedish), she can do nothing about it but look beautiful. One day Papa has a talk with Pierre-or thinks he does. But Pierre has his earplugs in, and the whole sound track is blanked out. Papa is seen enthusiastically drawing female forms...
Before eventually deciding that they are, Pierre sends Maman and Papa into a new spell of vexation by redecorating his room with a thousand pinup photos of statuesque Stella, a chanteuse he sees on television. A bigger-than-life cutout of Stella covers a tall chest of drawers. As a matter of fact, Stella's chest covers one of the drawers, and every time Pierre opens it, he adds spectacular new dimensions to Stella's bosom...
...mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...