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...manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting maneuver known locally as a queue de poisson (fishtail swerve), then forced the truck to stop and shot its driver...
...Motors is fighting the first of scores of suits involving the 1,124,076 Corvairs it produced between 1960 and 1963. Nearly all the suits claim that in those years the Corvair's rear axle (since redesigned) tended to cause violent oversteering that sometimes forced the car to "fishtail" and roll over...
...daughters, she was the youngest and fairest. "Her skin," said Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen, "was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea-but like all the others, she had no feet. Her body ended in a fishtail...
...behind you is trying to pass. The unofficial code of the chevalier de la route then requires that the second car must relentlessly pursue the first until it can finally get by, preferably by cutting off the first car with what is called a queue de poisson-fishtail. This is considered so deep a humiliation that the insulted motorist may chase the other driver for miles just to pay him back in kind...
...tinsel of the amusement park at Venice, Calif., a siren song lures a young sailor toward destruction. He meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...