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Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant...
...raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster, he shoved out to sea under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After a while, the days and nights ran together, and once, in near delirium, Rafael believed he was being inspected by a huge, two-horned sea monster...
...visitors from the University of Pennsylvania, however, endorsed Radcliffe's "almost ideal" educational set-up. "There is a thirst for knowledge that Penn lacks," affirmed Jacqueline L. Zahn, Penn '62. "Radcliffe comes closer to realizing its academic goals. At Penn we just seem to scrape the surface...
Guignard plunged into art studies in Munich, Florence, Padua, Venice, Paris. He built up a small, solid reputation-and a big, solid thirst...
...scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...