Word: soi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jaded oculii were roaming carelessly, just the other day, through a salt-stained numero of the Daily when they happened to rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte...
Through the 1960s and '70s, as chain-smoking and drinking took their toll on her health, Signoret was increasingly cast as a gutsy, worldly older woman. Probably her best performance of the period was in Moshe Mizrahi's 1977 film, La Vie Devant Soi (Madame Rosa in English), in which she played a Jewish ex- prostitute and survivor of a concentration camp. The theme of Jewish life in France was also the subject of her best-selling novel, Adieu, Volodia, which appeared this year. She had previously published two memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used...