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...Picasso begins Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Of The Century | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...LES MISERABLES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Primary Colors was supposed to be the Bill Clinton movie a clef of 1998, but the recently released Bille August film of Victor Hugo's 1862 epic Les Miserables, with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, may better parallel the President's saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...LES MISERABLES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...life he was compared (often by himself) to an eagle, a titan, an ogre, a monster; to Homer, Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. He wrote enormous, turbulent, dark novels, two of which (Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in our own day have been turned, respectively, into a kitsch-book musical and a saccharine Disney film. Few read the originals, at least in English, though they are of course more disturbing and entertaining than their modern clones. He wrote 21 plays, which transformed the French theater, hoicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sublime Windbag | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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