Word: polnareff
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...Polnareff: Not at all. It was simply a practical joke. I just wanted to make people laugh. There's too much moroseness [a word used by former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas to describe the current atmosphere in France] in this country...
...Polnareff: Pourquoi pas? The image of my country shouldn't be limited to the fountains of Versailles and Camembert cheese...
...Polnareff: France's glories are not only past ones...
...Polnareff: I didn't think...
Pleading for acquittal, PolnarefFs lawyer, Gilles Dreyfus, argued that decency was not definable. "Decency varies from one era to another, from one place to another," he said. "A bare-bosomed woman on the beach at St. Tropez is not shocking or indecent in 1972. But she would be even today in front of Notre Dame cathedral." After taking two weeks to consider his verdict, Judge Taillandier last week had the tail-end word. He fined Polnareff $12,000 ($2 a poster), his record company, which had paid for the posters, $12,000, and his pressagent, who had conceived the stunt...