Ugly sisters

scenario had come out of the 1940s. In Frederick Wakeman’s 1946 novel, The Hucksters, this was how advertising worked. In the middle of a meeting, the client spat on the conference room table and said: “You have just seen me do a disgusting thing. Ugly word, spit. But you’ll always remember what I just did.”4 The account executive in the novel took the lesson, later musing: “It was working like magic. The more you irritated them with repetitious commercials, the more soap they bought.”5 With 504

process of eggs within a single ovary. With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years. The average production rate using Podsnap's Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins. Called over by the Director, Mr. Henry Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the attentive students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings. The Director and Henry Foster continue

of the world : science, progress, the worldly emphasis on " facts," on what is " positive," " serious," " respectable." Satire, with him, ugliness, is the revenge of beauty upon it is the persecution of the ugly; satire, it is not merely social material a satire on- the the universe by universe. one who beheves in a as spiritual Thus it is only laughter of our time which is fundamental, fundamental as that of Swift

de la bouche. (Si la langue est placée trop haut, votre i bref ressemblera à un ii.) Exemples : ߜ it (it) (pronom personnel neutre) ߜ his (h’iz) (son ou sa) ߜ this (dis) (ce… ci) ߜ bill (bil) (addition au restaurant [UK], billet de banque [US]) ߜ sister (sis-tee) (sœur) Attendez-vous à ce qu’on vous regarde bizarrement si vous ne faites pas clairement la distinction entre le i bref (comme dans it) et le i long (comme dans eat). Ne dites pas I need to live now (aï niid tou liv naou) (il faut que je

/WORDWORK Compréhension de l’écrit + expression Match the words with their French translations. First, check the words whose meaning you know by trying to match them with their translation, then use a dictionary for the others. tall short pale, wan ugly slim well-built be overweight plump, stout good-looking, handsome, attractive ruddy the figure waist thin, skinny wrinkle smooth gaunt puffy keep one’s figure the complexion plain la silhouette solide, costaud ride garder la ligne rougeaud décharné (tour

of vaudeville. That’s a kind of entertainment in which actors sing and tell stories. I was very popular because I was a kid. I traveled* from place to place to entertain. In a few years I had made enough money to bring my mother, brothers and sisters to America. But I faced a new problem. It was 1924, and not as many immigrants were being allowed into America. My family could not get permission to come. They were in Poland, and my father and I were in America. How would 45 we be a family again

not just donating money. He made a lot of money which enabled him to launch a film company. A lot of his philanthropic work isn’t discussed in the media. Application/expression a. Born on October 28th 1955, Bill Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. b. The Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation has given out over $6.2 billion in grants/scholarships since its inception. c. In 1987 Hewlett was named director emeritus, serving in that position until he passed away on Jan. 12, 2001. d. Hewlett’s most

must be understood as compliance with the efforts of the other women. Among the male travellers, the prostitute's ostracization on sexual grounds is mirrored by Cornudet's politico-economic isolation, as Sullivan has suggested. Just as the women are sisters in their supposed "virtue", the men draw together against Cornudet, "frères par l'argent." In actual fact, however, the distance which separates the moneyed males from Cornudet is travelled as quickly as that separating the "virtuous" women from the

especially within the oil sector. Power games between historical majors modestly known as International Oil Companies (IOCs), and those more or less owned by states (National Oil Companies, NOCs), have been overturned. During the Sixties the “seven sisters” controlled 75% of all reserves and 80% of production. Nowadays they are obliged to make do respectively with 6% and 24% (and for gas with 20% and 35%). From the Saudi owned Aramco to Libyan LNOC, including the Iranian NIOC, Russia’s Gazprom and Petrochina

are described as “beggars” (use your dictionary if you don’t know the word). Are they exactly begging? ................................................... ........................................................ f) How do the boys feel when their sister is caught? ................................ .................................................... g) Why is the little girl particularly touching? ........................................... .................................................... h) How