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...done with the necessary detail. Varnedoe and Gopnik have gone into their subject with vast scholarly elan, mining arcana from the areas where art and life, under the impulse of a modernism striving to refresh itself, are layered. If you want to know what was the catalog model of Marcel Duchamp's urinal, which nursery book Max Ernst got a particular collage element from, or which frame panels from 1962 war comics drawn by Russ Heath were conflated by Roy Lichtenstein to produce Okay, Hot-Shot, 1963, you need look no further...
...come down, in the end, to an antic game of charades. English may be the universal language, but it's still less universal than hands and eyes. So even as we become unwitting James Joyces -- coining neologisms by the minute -- when we essay a foreign language, we also become Marcel Marceaus: asking the way to the rest room with our eyebrows or sending back the squid with a paroxysm of mock pain. Ask a man in Tierra del Fuego to point you to The Sound of Music, and he'll instantly reply, "No problem!" (which, in every language, means that...
...time author Kim Wozencraft sold Rush to Random House for a $35,000 advance, Zanuck had already won the film rights for $1 million. The price was no fluke. Last month Tom Cruise paid about $1 million for the rights to Big Time, a novel by mystery writer Marcel Monticino...
Decareau did more damage in the Crimson's four-run fourth inning, cranking a two-run homer that plated Marcel Durand in front of him. Shortstop Dave O'Connell's two-run single extended the lead...
...second game proved to be another nail biter. Harvard got on the board in the bottom of the first on leftfielder Marcel Durand's single to center that drove home Konjoyan. Penn tied the score in the third when sophomore catcher Brian Hoehn reached on Durand's three-base error and scored on outfielder Doug Salaway's RBI single...