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Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve fanciful short stories by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible...
...little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America, but he has gone back. I will never marry...
Across Paris, by Marcel Aymé. Twelve fanciful short stories in beautifully wrought irony by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible...
...early luminary of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, which developed such formgivers as Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, Albers came to the U.S. when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, taught at Black Mountain College and later headed Yale's Department of Design. At 70, Albers has the granitic and yet sensitive face of a northern Dante; though recently retired, he still finds opportunities to teach. "To distribute spiritual possessions," he may say to one shy talent, "is to multiply them." To another, more flamboyant, he may murmur in passing, "Calm down...
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve superlative short stories by the gifted French novelist who puts all of life's ironies in the creative fire...