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Sabbey entertained the students with a string of terrible reminisces about his vaudeville days as a pantomimist -- "The only reason Marcel Marceau made it and I didn't was Marceau's idea of painting his face white." He explained that the fellow they were waiting for was out purchasing ladies' undergarments...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer. While sculpting the three-dimensional figure of Proust, Poet and British Museum Curator Painter also found time to help authenticate The Vinland Map (see below...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. British Museum Curator George D. Painter concludes his rich biography of Marcel Proust in a second volume. Remembrance of Things Past is virtually required prior reading, but once that hurdle is out of the way, the reader is treated to a detailed and near-reverent account of Proust's agonizing labors over Remembrance, his homosexuality, and his pathetic transformation from social climber to neurotic recluse...
...lovely luncheon. Jacqueline Kennedy came, smartly dressed in a checked tweed coat, and the 200 construction workers, clad in khakis and cement dust, grinned delightedly over their lunchtime beers and sandwiches as she accompanied Architect Marcel Breuer on an inspection tour of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Meantime, at some less gritty feeds, old New Frontier Friend Nicole Alphand was swirling around town winding up a hectic month of goodbyes. Everyone was a little mournful now that French Ambassador Hervé Alphand was taking his glittering wife back to Paris, where he will become Secretary General...