Word: shirttails
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EARLY IN THE FILM, Gaudier Brzeska is chased by guards from the Louvre for indecent dress, an untucked shirttail. He cludes them to emerge sprawied stop a giant Negro sculpture, screaming with messianic fervor. "Art is alive! People have to be shocked into life!" At a Bohemian dinner Gaudier Brzeska's lack of restraint disgusts his pseudo-sophisticate hosts. An art dealer, Shaw baits him maliciously until his braggadaccio traps him into promising an exhibition of non-existent marble sculptures the following morning. So the irrepressible Gaudier Brzeska drags a simpering homosexual friend out of bed rushes to a cemetery...
...friendliness was there last Saturday night when James Taylor-tall, almost lanky, with his shirttail out, wearing orange socks and sandals-walked onto the Sanders stage. He sat down and gazed at the packed house. He hesitated, and after a simple, sheepish "hi," he took the audience into his mind for what later seemed the shortest of times...
...necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon, had only one complaint: "We got rather hungry. Getting a hot dog?that was the biggest crisis we had." Floor Manager Rogers Morton told reporters: "The only time I got worried was when my shirttail came out and I couldn't get it back...
Never Alone. In the intensive-care unit after the operation, Kennedy was never left alone with the hospital staff. Ethel rested on a cot beside him, held his unfeeling hand, whispered into his now-deaf ear. His sisters, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, hovered near by. Ted Kennedy, his shirttail flapping, strode back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange...
...somewhat more generalized and sanitary connotation. When preceded by the feminine article la, the term connotes messing about or stirring up a carnival. But when used with the masculine article le, the term is more vulgar, denoting one who soils his bed or goes about with a dirty shirttail hanging out. By omitting the article, De Gaulle left his meaning purposefully ambiguous. As a rejoinder to the general, rebellious students and workers have coined a new chant: "La chienlit, c'est lui!" (The one making the mess...