Word: quel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring down any house: The hunters and huntresses, after carousing about in a seaside forest and D major for twenty minutes ("A la chasse, a la chasse!") become upset over an ominous tremolo in the strings; the lights go out, the wave machine starts up, and to cries of "Quel bruit! Quelle flamme I'environe!", Neptune's pet sea-dragon emerges in a cloud of smoke. Hippolyte conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist took his liberties with Rachine...
...tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou. Hélas, quel...
...France, where rationality is carried to extremes, so is superstition. A common conversational opener is "Quel est votre signe [What sign were you born under...
...that a game for middleaged men?", to which Frankie glared redly, "Say that again and I'll smash your face in." She didn't, but the pack routed the rabble anyway with drawn knives, a gin bottle and a couple of clubs, leaving some Frenchmen thinking wistfully: Quel dommage the Bastille was ever torn down...
...would like to drop it and run. Given more opportunities, these accomplished farceurs might have brought off a dandy suspense comedy. But Director Christian Jaque and his scriptwriters apparently couldn't decide whether to make a bad serious movie or a good funny one, so they tried both. Quel dommage...