Word: mlle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...braised turkey à la Normande that was carved "with sacerdotal majesty" at the Rivebelle restaurant. At the meal Mme. Swann called "le lunch," there would be creamed eggs en cocotte-and Dining shows the way to prepare them. In Jean Santeuil, Proust wrote of the lobster set before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed...
...Sonata in G for Cello and Piano (op. 65) is the single piece of chamber music to reflect his capabilities. Madeline Foley's performance began in elegant style, but early in the first movement her fingers cramped up, marring her usual precision. She continued, but with painful results. Mlle. Foley was obviously upset with her performance, but it is a credit to her that she continued...
Rome stretched to 14; the engagement was broken. Mlle. Forestier is said to have repelled all subsequent suitors with the explanation: "When you have had the honor of being engaged to M. Ingres, you don't marry...
This retreat for hunted guerrillas is managed by Mlle. Kempeth Pholsens, an anti-French graduate of Moscow University, daughter of Quinim Pholsena, the Laotian Minister of Foreign Affairs and neutralist leader who was assassinated in Vientiane in April 1963. Life here is very simple. On a rocky platform which forms the entrance to the cave, a washbasin has been set, a dangerous place for anyone to stick his nose out too far-at times it is impossible to finish shaving because of the jets from Thailand prowling about. The, one lies flat on the floor of the cave, his only...