Word: schoolgirlisms
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...been 21 years since Bonjour Tristesse established Schoolgirl Françoise Sagan as the enfant terrible of French letters. She is finishing up her ninth novel, which she describes as "not a love story. It's about an obsession, and based partly in the U.S." Sagan is an ailing 38. Her life has been scarred with drama: two divorces, a near-fatal auto accident, a bout with habitual gambling. Dividing her time between a Paris apartment and a Normandy house, Sagan is still planning, as she announced last year, to live in Ireland, at least for half the year...
PERHAPS ONE OF the most curious parts of the week's news coverage was the media's failure to play up the brutal attack of a black schoolgirl by a gang of white youths wielding baseball bats and rubber hoses. The failure to adequately report this and several other incidents involving white attackers brought charges of racist reporting. The Progressive Labor Party dramatized their notion of a "conspiracy to stir up racial violence" by taking over The Boston Globe's advertising office and demanding that the Globe print a PLP statement denouncing the coverage...
...affaire Bruay began one early afternoon in April 1972 when a group of teen-agers kicking a soccer ball around an empty lot discovered the nude, mutilated body of Brigitte Dewèvre, a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose father is a miner. The investigation began routinely enough, with police looking for a "tall, strongly built man wearing a turtle neck" who had been seen with the girl the day before she died. But then one witness claimed that she had seen a wealthy Bruay notary (in France, a kind of real-estate lawyer) named Pierre Leroy parking...
...made merciless fun of poor Emma Bovary, that silly little goose of a Norman schoolgirl, who dreamed in the convent of a mysterious East full of "sultans with long pipes, swooning under arbors in the arms of dancing girls . . . tigers . . . Tartar minarets on the horizon ... kneeling camels." But that was just the East that young Gustave, a dreamy, handsome, unpublished Norman author, a motherbound retarded adolescent of 27, went to see in 1849, the year before he began writing his novel...
...along a softly lighted green walk, baby carriage in front and nanny and dog behind. It was a vision out of an old romantic movie or her favorite author, Proust. Ingmar was not interested in wheeling a baby carriage, however, and Liv lapsed into the frightened schoolgirl again. She was not only afraid that the nanny's feelings would be hurt if she pushed the carriage, but she was even worried that the dachshund would feel rejected if she paid too much attention to the baby. As a result, the day she returned from the hospital the nanny pushed...