Word: pompons
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...visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author as he introduces some of his accomplices: Aimé, the "prince of the art of cutting up the carcass"; Bibi, the bistro owner with a "paunch as welcoming as a soft pillow to a tired head at night"; and Pompon, the Armagnac supplier who doubles as a "learned professor...
...never be answered--it's all right there. In the cemetery at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Veterans Day will pass without formal observation; if the weather holds, the 6,827 men, women and children interred there will spend the day under a cerulean sky and pompon trees, and the living around them will give them the merest thought. Cemeteries reward the ironist...
...Abuse and Violence. But the Illinettes, the school's cheerleaders, were hands-down the most conspicuous -- and they may be banned. Reporting that a dismaying 16.4% of women students responding to a random survey said they had been victims of criminal sexual assault, the task force singled out the pompon performances by the 28 cheerleaders as one of the "activities that project women as sexual objects...
Wearing snug aerobic leotards and boots, the high-stepping Illinettes do their best to psych up fans at football and basketball games. Though the task force suggested that boozy frat and tailgate parties should go too, it's the threatened pompon ban that has the campus stirred up. "We've been made a scapegoat," charges Illinette squad captain Pam Withers, 20, who says the Illinettes are campus role models. "We consider this a serious sport...
...street, the Rue Bourbon-le-Chateau. Yet the scene is far from ordinary. The orthogonals and links between objects give it a tense, mathematical substructure with all manner of arcane rhymes: the triad, for instance, of the red ball on the ground, the globe over the door and the pompon on the boy's cap. The cast of characters is mixed. The man in white might be a baker, or perhaps Christ carrying the lignum crucis; the two boys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the twins from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. It did not escape Balthus...