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...meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire de la jeunesse. Derriere la naivete du celebre "J'ai quelque chose a dire mais je ne sais pas quoi" se trouve un besoin inarticule de s'unir aux autres, de s'echapper d'un anonymat individuel. "Le graffiti en soi devenait liberte," nous explique Besancon dans la preface...
Papa finally gave his permission, but to spare him any embarrassment Françoise changed her last name from Quoi-rez to Sagan, after a character in Proust. Tristesse sold 4,500,000 copies around the world and launched her not only as an author but as a peripatetic and hyperbolic prototype of the restless, anarchic youth of Europe. Although her face is triangular and her figure suggests undernourishment, French magazines played her up as if she were Bardot. She played right back, danced all night at a Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars...
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...nearly always active, became powerfully expressive. He would push his fist forward with a twisting motion, suddenly pull a chunk of space toward himself with both hands; sometimes, when he was looking for a word, he would feel the air with his fingers in a "je ne sais quoi" gesture. Then he would explain, "I can't say it. I can just express it like this, with my fingers...
...unerring accuracy of the CRIMSON's predictions for the New Year has long been an object of awe and admiration. Year after year after year, our predictions have proven to be. And once again, with typical humility and that traditional on ne sait quoi, the CRIMSON invokes its trusty Almanac and crystal bottle, and predicts the major events...