Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illicit by Another Name. When Isa and Maurice cannot kill their illicit love, they decide to clear its name. They call it "passion" and proceed to enjoy it. But with Belle's death, Isa feels the birthpangs of guilt ("dead . . . she divided us forever"). Isa and Maurice quarrel, Gallic-fashion, over the disposition of La Fouve. Then the women again close ranks, and that episodic intruder, man, is expelled bewildered from this strange Garden of Eves. With fitting irony, Maurice leaves Isa pregnant with a daughter to carry on the cycle of gynarchy...
Ageless Charmer Maurice Chevalier offered in Manhattan a restrained Gallic comment on le rock 'n' roll americain: "It belongs to the fever of this time, but it will pass because you can't spend a lifetime doing that...
...young contestant from Paris was a chemistry whiz. Hot as a Bunsen burner, Pierre Poitrinal, 17, answered question after question on Radio Luxembourg's Quitte ou Double, the Gallic Double or Nothing that is Europe's most popular French-language radio quiz. When he was through talking of ekasilicon and the halides of uranium a fortnight ago, Pierre had won 2,048,000 francs ($4,876.19) and was still going strong...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
What sort of woman was Miss Howard? "Intriguer," "courtesan," "creature," "English chain," are some of the unkind names she has been called. Gallant, Gallic Mme. Maurois will have none of these. At the end of a biography that lacks her husband's professional brilliance but is highly competent in its own right, Author Maurois tenderly quotes the description of Miss Howard given to an interviewer by an aged servant of Beauregard: "I shall never forget Milady descending the stairs in the Chateau on the tick of seven in a great crinoline and wearing all her pearls. Ah, Monsieur...