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French humor prides itself on its elegantly turned irony (Anatole France) and the clean bite of its wit (Voltaire, Molière), but it also has a more modern and less celebrated side: what Parisian slang calls loufoque-zany. The practitioners of this form of Gallic humor consist of a small army of chansonniers, moviemakers, Left Bank beachcombers and cartoonists. The cartoonists have now formed an avant-garde to invade the U.S. cartoon market. Some are funny enough to get through, but most will succeed only if they catch Americans with their advance guards down, their sleeves rolled...
Hospital. Closely watched around the clock, Dhanalakshmi went for two days without sustenance, then sipped seven ounces of water. Later she asked for coffee, then a bite to eat. After the fourth day, she began putting away three meals a day and ate Coorg's miracle out of existence. "She ate every day without fail," reported indignant officials. "We are of the opinion that she had been taking food somehow, somewhere, unnoticed...
...make his helicopter go up or down he incorporated the idea of the variable-pitch propeller; by increasing the rotor blades' bite on the air (and simultaneously opening the throttle), he increased their lifting power. But to steer the machine forward, backward or sideways he made the blades subject, also, to something much more complicated, called cyclical pitch. This forced the bite of each individual blade to lessen as it swung toward the direction in which the control stick was moved?and then to gradually increase back to maximum pitch as it traveled through the next 180 degrees...
...baby sweater. the first recalls the never-missed "sloppy jo" of 1946; the baby sweater resembles swaddling clothes and is often trimmed with a halo of angora or a collar of flowered ribbon. Many are made with low-rounded necks. Especially popular is the scoop neck with the bite-size scallop...
Solomon's Reign. In Paterson, N.J. suing for divorce, Mrs. Bessie Sigel complained that her husband Solomon 1) demanded that his meals be served course by course while he lounged on the living-roon sofa, 2) always checked to see that his food had been precut in bite-size chunks 3) dumped his plate on the floor if her cooking displeased...