Word: yawns
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Then, save for one or two disgruntled voices, e.g., Le Monde, which gave the birth a last-page yawn, the French press turned eagerly to the story's next chapter: full-page horoscope readings on Nicholas Jacques. "He'll be tough and aggressive" (Ici). "He'll take up art or literature" (France-Dimanche). "He'll be the first man on the moon" (Paris-Jour...
...younger brother of Play wright John Osborne's backward-scowling Jimmy Porter. At 18 or so. he is a mortician's clerk in a scruffy little Yorkshire town, so benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including a frightfully U mother who merely looks up from her solitaire when he comes home drunk...
...lecture was over and Vag's mechanism rumbled with what passes for a yawn in tape recorders. "No sections, no tutorial," he thought. "No wonder they said junior year was worth waiting for!" Bump, bump, bump, Vag maneuvered his way down the steps of Sever. "Off to fresh woods and pastures new," he mused cheerily as he rolled up the walk to Lamont...
...France's Double Tour?might win the festival's Golden Lion of St. Mark. But whatever prize // Generate won in the final voting, it had already earned the heartfelt gratitude of the festival's organizers by transforming a show that was turning into what some critics called "the 20th yawn ? festival.'' Before Rossellini turned up, there was even talk that the festival might die out altogether in the next few years...
...longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...