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...small, vivid miracle of type. Fetching up their names is an old game for the trivialist: Sam (Dooley Wilson), the bartender Sascha (Leonid Kinskey), the waiter Carl (S.Z. Sakall), the jilted Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau), the Bulgarian couple (Joy Page and Helmut Dantine), the pickpocket (Curt Bois), the croupier (Marcel Dalio...
Remembrance of Some Things past: Few argue that Marcel Proust didn't possess a remarkable memory. But even the recent three-volume edition of Provst's work remains unwieldy. You can't carry a boxed set on the subway...
Poul Kjærholm of Denmark achieved this natural-and thus human-quality with a lithe chair (1957) in which steel undergirds a swath of cane woven into a combined seat and back rest. The object's elegance surpasses any seating Marcel Breuer or Le Corbusier ever designed in steel and leather...
Graves has since won other important commissions, notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...
...chic chocs are hand-dipped to build an even quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison d'Or chocolates, possibly Belgium's finest. Founder Marcel Jo seph Corné says, "They are to be bitten gently with the eyes closed." Perhaps. But true chocophiles mostly pursue their passion with eyes and wallets wide open. A sampler...