Gauloise

Split into three distinct parts beginning Monday night, "Carlos" revels luxuriantly in a world that in many ways no longer exists -- a pre-Internet, Gauloise-chain-smoking, deeply radicalized Europe and Middle East populated with insouciant Marxists of all stripes who are willing to help "the cause," which was so broadly defined back then as to verge on parody.

TV Preview: Sundance Channel's 5 1/2-hour biopic 'Carlos' Hank Stuever 2010

It was as if he'd lit a Gauloise and coolly sniffed, "Oh, were you expecting somebody else today?"

This Roger Guy Isn't Half Bad Jason Gay 2011

There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.

This week's new live music 2011

Harley took a fretful drag, then while exhaling through his nostrils mashed the Gauloise in a standing obsidian ashtray.

'The Last Werewolf' 2011

Harley lit a Gauloise and topped us up with an unsteady hand, lilac-veined and liver-spotted these days.

'The Last Werewolf' 2011

When he returned, whom should he see but George Zlatovski, talking intently to Julia, one hand furiously stabbing the air with a lit Gauloise.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.

This week's new live music 2011

Hanging from rouged lips, the Gauloise remains forever unlit;

Soir Bleu JP Reese 2011

When he returned, whom should he see but George Zlatovski, talking intently to Julia, one hand furiously stabbing the air with a lit Gauloise.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

I could picture him, creased, struggling up from the couch, hair aloft with static, fumbling for the Gauloise.

'The Last Werewolf' 2011