Word: peanuts
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There were a couple of other posers. Britons in general do not like peanuts. And, said a circus man, "Our elephants have never seen a peanut in their lives; British people feed buns to elephants. If we give them rich, oily peanuts, they'll probably get sick...
Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
Early in his career, as Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture, he gambled $11,000 of state funds in the Chicago livestock market. He wanted to prove that Georgia's peanut-fed hogs were as good as the Midwest's corn-fed animals. He failed. But he bayed: "Sure I stole the money, but I stole it for you," and as a result was elected governor...
...unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from an expensive seat or from the peanut gallery. Better just chuckle and enjoy it-if you can manage to hold back the tears...
...misleading translation: paradis is French slang for a theater's cheapest, topmost balcony seats. More idiomatic translation: The Kids in the Peanut Gallery...