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...prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart murmur, which requires prolonged and restful treatment...
...earnest Burgess (similar to his shepherd in Far From The Madding Crowd); Edward Fox (James's brother?) puts in a fine cameo as the scarred Trimmingham. The young Dominic Guard is suitably discomfited and ruddy as Leo. All are bathed in photographer Gerry Fisher's impeccable lighting, while Michel Legrand contributes an appropriate formal--and lovely--musical score...
...Watson in assembling source material on classical Chinese literary traditions. Political Scientist Donald W. Klein is a biographer of current Chinese leaders; O. Edmund Clubb, who was U.S. consul-general in Peking until 1950, has taken a leading role in publicizing the arguments for new U.S. initiatives toward China. Michel Oksenberg, a younger scholar, has shown that bureaucratic decisions in China, far from being totalitarian, can be as complex as they...
Nobody knows exactly how much of the collection thus leaked away, but Michel Monet scrupulously respected his father's wishes in one area. He left the collection not to the French government (old Monet never forgave the Louvre for ignoring him) but to the Marmottan...
That this drab and peripheral institute should come to rival the Louvre as a shrine of French Impressionism seems inconceivable. But five years ago, an octogenarian named Michel Monet, driving back from a visit to his wife's grave in Normandy, collided with a truck and died. He was the son and only offspring of Claude Monet. When Monet père died in 1926, Michel inherited his collection and kept most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy...