Other Lists

Actors I’d watch in almost anything (in no order)

1) James Mason

2) Sterling Hayden

3) Henry Fonda

4) Paul Scofield

5) Fabrice Luchini

6) Jean-Pierre Léaud

 

Favorite French Verbs (in no order)

1) ironiser

2) chausser

3) rivaliser

4) véhiculer

5) émerveiller

6) concurrencer

7) s’affairer

 

from “Unforgettable Fire”, Torako Hironaka

1 ) Some burned work-clothes.

2 ) People crying for help with their heads, shoulders, or the soles of their feet injured by fragments of broken window glass. Glass fragments were scattered everywhere.

3 ) [A woman] crying, saying “Aigo! Aigo” (a Korean expression of sorrow).

4 ) A burning pine tree.

5 ) A naked woman.

6 ) Naked girls crying, “Stupid America!”

7 ) I was crouching in a puddle, for fear of being shot by a machine gun. My breasts were torn.

8 ) Burned down electric power lines.

9 ) A telephone pole had burned and fallen down.

10 ) A field of watermelons.

11 ) A dead horse.

12 ) What with dead cats, pigs, and people, it was just hell on earth.

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