Word: peugeots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier films. They are numerous, and of nearly equal quality, but their prime value is to allow the director to characterize. And this film is filled with characters. Husband Clovis (Philippe Leotard), a drunken, brawling, truly ignorant ass of a man, whose battered, yet ornamented bright red Peugeot echoes so many street-customized '57 Chevies; who is introduced by his racy two-toned shoes. Saloon singer Sam Golden (Guy Marchand), Truffaut's parodied homage to Bogart and gangsters, a man who can only have sexual intercourse accompanied by a sound effects record of the Indy...
...kingpin of the operation, Tonnot lived an obscure life to avoid what French tax collectors call "signs of exterior wealth." He drove a bourgeois Peugeot 504 and kept his bank account low. In the end, however, exterior wealth was his undoing. The widening investigation turned up the fact that he owned a vineyard in the Jura mountains and a villa by the Mediterranean in addition to a $50,000 Lyon apartment (which alone might have been explained away by simple graft). Now, Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine...
...book is at its best when presenting the author's personal impressions of the war: Biafrans going into combat with a Peugeot station wagon as a command car; customs officials who, in the terrible last days, still asked departing newsmen if they had any antiquities to declare; Nigerian officers who clustered around the author after his return from Biafra eagerly asking after friends on the other side. In describing the psychology of the white mercenaries who fought for both the Nigerians and the Biafrans, De St. Jorre suggests the real reason the Nigerians never managed to destroy Uli airstrip...
...trip to Bermuda (p. 4); a Peugeot (p. 5); the LIFE Library of Photography (p. 8); an Emerson Permacolor television set (p. 11); a sterling silver Sheaffer pen (p. 12); a General Electric Potscrubber dishwasher (p. 25); Seagram's Crown Royal (p. 26); flying with Jo on National Airlines (pp. 41-42a); some De Beers Consolidated diamonds (p. 56); a Kodak Carousel projector (p. 76); and a Gran Torino Hardtop with bucket seats, vinyl roof, wheel trim rings and white sidewalls (back cover...
...route to an ice cream parlor in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera one day last summer, a doctor's wife named Josette Varinet, 30, discovered that she and her two children were taking the wrong route. Mme. Varinet began backing her Peugeot out of the one-way street when suddenly a big black car drove in, and its owner began assailing her with a wordy sermon on the failings of female drivers. To that Josette replied: "Je vous emmerde," an excremental expletive...