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...inspiration behind these noms de plume is WWD Publisher John Fairchild. Most Esterhazy items are written by Fairchild himself (he is usually "Louise"), though Adelita's effort was the work of Karen Winner. The habit of killing off Esterhazys springs from Fairchild's mordant interpretation of the term "once-in-a-lifetime assignment." Says Editor Michael Coady: "It's a fun thing we have around here." Hungarian monarchists on the staff are said to be particularly amused...
...creation of the militant terrorist group known as the Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), one of whose principal goals was to kill De Gaulle for having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume, 48, a journalist, interviewed former O.A.S. leaders and obtained access to the French Interior Ministry's records. The result is an extraordinary tale of mad zeal, abominable planning and incredibly bad luck by what was surely the world's most dedicated and inept gang of assassins...
...easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...
...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
Still, Cyrano's motto- "I have decided to excel in everything"-is more than mere bombast. His poetry is a celebration of the spirit. He is the enemy of cowardice, weakness, and stupidity. His white plume flies unsullied to the romantic-tragic end, although you must ask if it was worth his self sacrifice and emotional blindness...