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...British slang for swinging...
Cloportes is French for lice-and slang for the killers, con men, pimps, prostitutes and safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent...
This gap between "activity and self" finds expression in college slang such as "come on like," "make like" and "turn on." The compliment "cool" indicates this "same tenuous connection between deed and inclination." Though most of his life is centered on acquiring expertness, he seeks meaning in his personal relationships, and is in, this sense primarily what Keniston calls a "privatist," seeking human bonds to find identity and self-definition. The old question, to bed or not to bed, has been superseded by an "effort to define the precise circumstances under which sexual relations are meaningful and honorable." The professional...
...defensive and self-conscious about this man, who on "What's My Line?" could probably never convince the panel that he has been a disc jockey since he was 17 and yet who broadcasts WBZ's most upbeat and teenage-oriented program. He rarely uses a word of slang off the air, never calls his music "rock 'n' roll" (it is always "pop music"), and emphasizes that "99 per cent of my friends have nothing to do with the business. You have to get away. You can't be on the air 24 hours a day or else you become...
...putting a raspberry in his mouth" after each death, and then later, in describing the poet's arrest, you say that Stalin "who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled in 1934 to Siberia. In 1934 he was first exiled to eastern European Russia, and then to Voronezh in Central Russia, where...