Word: tis
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...bummed I was). I did some work in my room, cried a little, consoled myself with some beer, and for the most part, was pretty distraught. But then my friends came to the rescue. “Walt, pick up your head, my mate, ‘tis not all that bad,” they said.“It is, tis,” I replied.“Well, let’s go play some pick-up, hard-nosed, crazy-faced, dragon-inspired football out in front of Leverett,” they quipped...
...conservative answer is implicit in the title of John McCain's 1999 book, Faith of My Fathers. Why should we love America? In part, at least, because our forefathers did. Think about the lyrics to America ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"): "Land where my fathers died,/ Land of the Pilgrims' pride." Most liberals don't consider those the best lines of the song. What about the Americans whose fathers died somewhere else? What about all the nasty stuff the Pilgrims did? But conservatives generally want to conserve, and that requires a reverence for the past. What McCain's title implies...
...Marcel] Pagnol did for the Provençals: showing that people broadly considered buffoonish and stupid are actually very interesting, alluring, and deeply human," says Patrice Languetif, a Paris jeweler who spends much of his free time in his home in Ch'ti-land. "I've never seen Ch'tis prouder since this movie came out. I'm also getting requests from Paris friends who never showed any interest in the north before to go up there with me on weekends. The film has given a lot of relief to a map of the north that most of France...
...Even if it doesn't go that far, the small budget ($16.5 million) les Ch'tis has already produced the mini-miracle of enticing French moviegoers into laugh away some of their own enduring regional prejudices. The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines...
...film Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Ch'tis) has sold more than 5 million tickets during its first week in the cinemas, shattering the previous roll-out box-office record of 3.9 million set in 2006 by Les Bronzés 3 - a comedy that similarly pokes fun at notorious French stereotypes. But whereas the Bronzés film was just the latest in a hugely popular series spanning back to the original 1978 film, Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis has been a bolt-from-the-blue phenomenon. Its simple, sex- and violence-free tale about normal...