Word: renault
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself, Coward avoids garishness, vulgarity and commonness of mind, and references to his own sex life are usually oblique and always discreet. In one entry, in which he takes a splenetic swipe at Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ("pretentious gibberish"), he goes on to attack Mary Renault's The Charioteer. "Oh dear," he says, "I do, do wish well-intentioned ladies would not write books about homosexuality. It takes the hero - soidisant - 300 pages to reconcile himself to being queer as a coot, and his soul-searching and deep, deep introspection is truly awful. There...
...Captain Renault (Claude Rains): I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on here...
Croupier (handing money to Renault): Your winnings, sir. Renault (briskly): Oh. Thank you very much...
...first thing one notices about the constitutional amendment is a certain discrepancy between behavior and rhetoric. The part of Captain Renault this year is being played by Ronald Reagan and the United States Congress. They are shocked to discover that budget deficits are going on in Washington. They have had recourse to a helpful old political appliance, something that might be called the Moral Dissociator. This device, a sort of reality override, is always useful in tight spots. It makes the politician disappear, and then materialize again on the other side of the room, the safer side...
...Mitterrand faces a major challenge from people of his own party's stripe: French workers. After a honeymoon period of benign cooperation with the government, unions are becoming increasingly unruly. Last month a walkout disrupted production at the country's two major automobile companies, Renault and Citroën. Laborers at both firms were demanding higher wages and other benefits. Coming from the Socialist President's natural constituency, such unrest should remind Mitterrand that support can never be taken for granted, and that in politics, seven years, not to say 14, is a very long time...