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...blasphemies. Dress: black with dazzling white shirt and pale pink gloves-Satan as dandy. Add a setting (thick carpets, low lights, leather volumes of the more decadent Latin poets, the fragrance of hashish everywhere, a black girl coming out of the bedroom like Venus rising from the sea) and voila: the essential Baudelaire myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of Addiction | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...wait. People will fall for the old stock-plot trick once, never twice. Voila, a new ingredient. Harry's getting soft. Not on the crooks, mind you, they still get their just deserts. On himself. That's right, there's a woman in this one, and Harry falls for her (and she for him). As if to underscore the new factor of emotional involvement as opposed to simple animal passion, the usual scenes of sexual conquest are conspicuous only by their absence. The substitutes, however, are much better than the originals. The scene where Harry tells his partner, Inspector Moore...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: How The Bad Guys Finally Won | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...sprint of 71 yards on a busted play. Kubacki originally intended to run an option to the right, but ran into a traffic jam consisting of his own players and some Dartmouth defenders in his backfield. So, apparently thinking discretion the better part of valor, he turned left, and voila, there lay the whole field, void of Dartmouth players, before...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Crimson Defense Thwarts Green, 24-10 | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...Paris last week, Surgeon Georges Thomeret talked to reporters and displayed a photograph of a dead woman. "She was 24 years old, married, and had a child of two. She had an abortion, done by her concierge. Voila: dead of septicemia [blood poisoning] because she could not afford $500 for a safe abortion in England. That is why I signed the manifesto, because of this woman and others like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The French Manifesto | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...would not wait for the 1976 elections, when Giscard would be a more potent threat. After naming his new Premier, Pompidou would promptly resign, ask the country for a vote of confidence and get himself re-elected before the left-wing opposition has a chance to catch its breath. Voila! Another seven-year term in the Elysée Palace-if the voters go along with the scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: A Gaullist Scenario | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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