Word: pigeoning
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...then let out a loud whistle. It was the only time I ever heard General de Gaulle whistle." Malraux hastened to add that he, for one, does not consider the scrub-up his supreme accomplishment. "My greatest coup," he said, "is that the Restaurant Lasserre in Paris created Pigeon André Malraux to outdo another restaurant, Le Grand Véfour, which had invented Pigeon Prince Rainier...
...consider the psychological utility, for instance, of the richly nuanced popular theology of Roman Catholicism, beneath whose dogma, he concedes grudgingly, may lurk "all the gods and goddesses of the ancient world."* The basic problem of Miller's book is that he has tossed up as a clay pigeon a monotheism that is an arid and abstract doctrine rather than the complex and mysterious vision that it has been, and still is, for many believers...
...that would be a bit self-serving, don't you think? Even if it permitted a brief discussion of why the Ibis (that mangy, stuffed acromegalic pigeon) is such a perfect symbol for the boys and girls of the Castle. Even if it justified itself with a sociological explanation of why the Lampoon-Crimson feud has petered...
...your little girl to become, Bette Midler had finally arrived at Manhattan's Palace Theater. Before an audience drawn mostly from the clientele of her favorite night spot, the Continental Baths, Midler demonstrated once again that she is a superb female impersonator. Not, however, as good as Rodney Pigeon. The following night at the Blue Angel nightclub, Rodney, 20, scored a succèsfou in the French-inspired transvestite revue Zou. Hurling himself onto the pocket-handkerchief stage, the divine Miss M's carbon copy skittered and tittered while belting out Midler's theme song, Friends...
...buses are parked next to the lords' Rolls-Royces. Nearly 500,000 persons visited the casino during the year. Ardent gamblers from Italy make up one-fourth of the clientele, but S.B.M. is trying to draw more affluent tourists from Germany, Spain and Britain. Near the casino, where pigeon-shooting grounds were located until Rainier's princess gave the coup de Grace to the cruel sport, S.B.M. is building a big convention center. Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money by night...