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...prostitute and survivor of a concentration camp. The theme of Jewish life in France was also the subject of her best-selling novel, Adieu, Volodia, which appeared this year. She had previously published two memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be (1976) and Le Lendemain, elle etait souriante...
...Etait Formidable. Confident that he would be dealing "not with imbecilic bandits but with sensible men who would reflect before acting," Lavalette and his raiders carried no weapons except their prop shotguns. Living up to these expectations, Cesari offered no resistance and, as Lavalette remembered the dialogue, declared solemnly: "Monsieur, permit me to offer you my hand so that I may congratulate you and your men on your job. C'était formidable.'" Replied Lavalette: "Man cher, I accept your congratulations, and I extend you my own. Thanks to you, I have accomplished the most beautiful affair that...
...treat a highly sexual fragment of literature. "Genet's prose is almost always dressed up--often in drag," Abel says of the homosexual writer. "Sartre himself has called attention to the ornateness with which Genet in A Thief's Journal writes of Bulksen's behind: 'Son posterieur etait un reposoir.' ('His behind was an altar...
...course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...
...Theatre du Vieux Colombier nous a apporte une representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille...