Word: pissoir
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...honor was certainly on the line. "If we lose tonight I can't go the office for four weeks," said Steven Riederer, 31, an American-born German living in Vienna. By game time, downtown Vienna had turned into one gigantic, smoky, outdoor beer hall, and, an hour later, a pissoir of equal proportions...
...focuses on the street life of Paris that Miller knew so intimately-the cafes and whorehouses, the rooftops and benches, the stores and moviehouses, the colors of the fruits and bowers. The Paris street people-the vagabonds drunkards, and sluts-appear frequently. Paris is seen from inside a pissoir one of Miller's favorite institutions. "To relieve the bladder is one of the great human joys...
...letter to Magazine Editor Ralph Ginzburg, he even insisted that it was the "Hebes in Moscow" who provoked the Arab-Israeli war in order to give Israel more territory, including "that glorified gentlemen's pissoir, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem." In the fantasies of Rockwell's chimerical world, he envisioned shipping 20 million American Negroes to Africa and gassing Jews after a grateful nation elected him President in 1972. After the depression that Rockwell predicted for 1969, the U.S. would clamor for "a white leader with the guts of a Malcolm...
...before anyone will actually admit to being shocked. New York now exports to various other centers of culture a mimeographed magazine whose title is somewhat stronger than Love You, A Magazine of the Arts; its pages are filled by some certified avant-garde writers, many homosexuals, who mostly write pissoir poetry...
...grimly humorous sights: outside the Hotel Caravelle, a Diem policeman seated in a tiny European car struggling desperately to get out of his uniform before the rebels spotted him; a pedestrian dashing madly around a corner, bullets kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking muzzles to pick up the brass cartridge cases...