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Goldsmith is eating quail as he speaks, washing it down with a vintage claret. He is entertaining a visitor at Laurent, an elegant one-star restaurant off the Champs Elysees. He happens to own the place. He bought it on impulse more than ten years ago, after a late-night party there...
Here is little Cupid as a London linkboy, sporting demonic bat wings and an immense phallic torch to remind those in the know of the proclivities of a certain patron. And here are Reynolds' friends in the learned Society of Dilettanti, arguing about antiquities and knocking back the vintage claret, while Sir William Hamilton points to an engraving of one of his own Greek vases and Mr. John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what...
DIED. James Mason, 75, suave Svengali of British and Hollywood films for a half-century; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel...
Haig's ideas of the world rise to the surface in bursts of singular intensity, punctuated by his high-pitched laughter. A few days ago, the Secretary devoured a filet with the gusto of a field commander and downed a good claret with the finesse of an ambassador; he concluded that his foreign policy was in pretty good shape but admitted that his Washington policy needed some repairs. He sees the Soviets as even more concerned than the U.S. about nuclear war. The creaking and groaning heard round the world (nowhere louder than in Washington) as the U.S. changes...
Ambrose Usher sniffs and swirls a mystery as he would a vintage claret from the cellars of his Oxford college. A philosophy don vivant who is summoned from time to time to put down wickedness on behalf of Her Majesty's government, he is the most erudite amateur detective in current fiction...