Word: rateurs
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...Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the simple-minded Chance of Being There...
Some of Simon's callers are merely nuisances: a boorish top-floor tenant (John Christopher Jones), a boozily aggressive littérateur, his girl friend who is soon enough making a stripped-to-the-waist play for a book contract. Others have more powerful claims on him: a brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection...
...Gentle Thrust. Monnet believes that the dynamics of the economically successful Common Market can work with equal success in the political sphere. The "Community character" being forged among EEC countries, says Monnet, provides Europe's "real unifying factor" (fédérateur}, a gentle thrust at President de Gaulle, who recently said that only an outside fédérateur, not European initiative, could bring about political federation. Some members of Monnet's committee had urged him to take a stronger stand against De Gaulle and his advocacy of loose federation, but wise old Monnet...
Horace Walpole, by Sheldon Wilmarth Lewis. The author provides a diverting study of the 18th century fop and littérateur, a man whose triviality of mind amounted to genius...
Onetime stripper and sometime Littérateur Gypsy Rose Lee took a brief critical look at the sorry modern state of her old profession: "There's a great sameness to it all now. The routines of the young girls all look the same. The wardrobes look the same-they all look like they've been sewn by one seamstress. Good burlesque must be for both men and women. You can't appeal to only one element, and the presence of women makes for a much better audience-they make men laugh more...