Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like other writers who have had clothing on their minds-Dickens, Proust and Balzac-Lurie can be cranky, bright, bitchy and as startling as a nudist at a dress ball. The Language of Clothes may never be used as a standard text, but it is ideal for those who want to slip into something more comfortable...
...Jean-Paul Aubé, whose figure of Dante conversing with a damned soul may have helped start the train of thought that led to The Gates of Hell, or Alexandre Falguière, whose monument to Lamartine is distantly echoed in Rodin's bronze crag of literature, the Balzac. Yet Rodin's superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times to be accepted by the main art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...
...speaks of the wonders of nature, and he reads incessantly. "He loves literature," says one of his advisers. "When things are not going badly he will talk about nothing but literature; he only talks politics when he is worried." His favorite writer is Chateaubriand. But he also reveres Balzac, Emile Zola, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Nobel-prizewinning French poet Saint-John Perse. He came to Marx late and has never read him in his entirety. Several years ago, at a summer cultural festival in Avignon, he remarked, "The day when there will be a socialist art, I will...
...Mark's teammates also had good days. In the 110-meter hurdles Chuck Johnson set a new personal record of 14.6 seconds--a full third of a second off his old time--on a cinder track that is only a little faster than the novels in Comp Lit 154, "Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevski...
...certainly urbane and charming. He speaks fluidly, puts one at case immediately, and quotes Balzac and Weber in the same breath. His silver mustache is immaculately clipped, his movements supple. And he knew how to run the tape recorder better than...