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Word: charlus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literal dead end, a pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history and literature, a sort of aristocracy of personal excesses: Casanova, Lord Byron, Proust's Baron de Charlus, Marguerite Gautier, and Kilroy, an American with a heart "as big as the head of a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: One Heart Breaking | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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