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bouffée

An obsolete nonspecific term for a transient attack, crisis or episode.

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MARIE, M., 2012, La grande bouffe, Encyclopaedia Universalis.

Suicide et alimentation : approche biopsychosociale

This was its first performance in England, and the first serious production of opera bouffe in English (Hibbert 26).

Redefining the grotesque: E. J. Odell, actor and comedian

Pundits have been wagging their fingers in the last few days, saying Gadaffi may be mad but he is not stupid, but this is to underestimate the opAra bouffe quality of his regime.

What next for the Libyans..?

The book begins with a biographical sketch of Hemingway, followed by a very brief first chapter, titled "A Serious Man." Here Mort questions some of the ostensibly accepted concepts about the 1942-43 patrols--and offers a seed of the investigative focus: "Was it all just bravado, a farce, an unintentional opera bouffe, the product of a blustering middle-aged man playing at war while actually just fishing" (17)?

The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for the U-boats

On les voit jeter leurs immenses filets en plein Nil esperant attraper des quantites suffisantes de poissons pour leur bouffe et souvent aussi pour la vente.

Les pecheurs defendent bec et ongles leur quotidien vecu a coups de pagaie

It is free to send a soldier one of these Fresspacklis/paquets de bouffe up to five kilos in weight.

You're in the army

No faltaba, por supuesto, La gran comilona (La grande bouffe, 1973), de Marco Ferreri, piedra de toque en la historia del genero gastronomico en el cine; y aunque la gastada alegoria que pinta a un grupo de gourmets reunidos para zamparse todo tipo de delicatessen hasta literalmente reventar, burguesia ociosa que se suicida lentamente por su gula y decadencia, peque de ingenua y dogmatica (eran los anos setenta), se rescata el expresionismo irreverente de Ferreri frente a la vision romantica, incluso mas sofisticada y educativa, de peliculas como El festin de Babette, Chocolat (Lasse Hallstrom) o Entre copas (Side Ways, 2004) de Alexander Payne.

Cine y cocina

La Bonne Bouffe, a cafe-bakery, has opened on the corner of Avenue B and Second Street.

Openings and closings: Coney Island businesses to return, Wendy's closes Third Avenue location

Lecocq, Charles, Girofle-Girofla (1874), opera bouffe

Le theatre a Ottawa 1870-1880: femmes s'abstenir

As the '90s progressed, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation offered less physical action and more opera bouffe; at the UFC, the plot points were confined to snapped noses and separated shoulders, and no combatant ever stepped into the ring wearing an outfit a Cher impersonator might covet.

Bleeding into the mainstream: how John McCain popularized human cockfighting

He and his partner Cecile Broquaire are the co-founders of La Grande Bouffe - The Big Nosh - which for the past five years has brought a flavour of the Haute-Savoie region of France to festivals around this country.

Mirror WORKS: Feastival favourites; We do top Nosh for mosh-pits

But Atwood reduces it all to opera bouffe. The maids are innocent victims of some archaic machismo but they are also chorus girls piping out ditties.