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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obeying Pain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Although we are both in Paradise, I cannot keep from writing you these incessant, voluminous, tormented letters. Forgive me, Maman, but you know as well as anyone that although I am now an immortal I am also still an asthmatic and get winded easily. So it is only in my writing that I can take the long breaths necessary for sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obeying Pain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...some heavy handed parallels between the two men such as their shared penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please his mother...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...little girl," recalls Sonia Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Pa risian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem cal culated to endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Parisian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem calculated to endear her to too many other women ?though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever?or if ?they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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