Marceau
Americannoun
noun
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Villanueva missed his mark so badly that even his loud-mouthed campaign manager, Javier Gonzalez — who has long trolled Tchekmedyian on Twitter — has been as silent as Marcel Marceau.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022
Marceau portrays Lisa, who heads to California for change after her grown-up children leave home and following the death of her mother, who was famous in France.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2022
Or you may prefer “Blazing Saddles,” a Western spoof; or “Young Frankenstein,” a horror spoof; or the self-explanatory “Silent Movie,” in which the only character to speak was Marcel Marceau, the famous mime.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Business would normally be booming right now, and it has ground to a halt, Marceau said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2021
For Hoche and Marceau, vide ante, Poetical Works, 1899, ii.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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