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Louis XIV grows older. Over a subtle background melody, Madame de Maintenon makes her legendary stab at Madame de Montespan: "Last night I dreamt, Madame, that we were on the grand stairs of Versailles: I was going up; you were coming down." The King dies, and several deep orchestral chords...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon...
few maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an...
Like her elders, Anne sometimes lets the animals get out of hand. Her title story is a well-polished but thin cliche: the blue dog, an outcast, dies happy in the cold because the snow lets him pass for white. But Anne is rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed...
After such an opening, the astute reader will be aware that this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him...