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...long-expected struggle for power-or at least one momentous phase of it-was waged so quickly that it was over before any outsiders even knew it had begun. Indeed, the first rumors of Mme. Mao's arrest seemed so implausible that Peking-based foreign reporters were afraid to cable them out. There was no open violence during the upheaval, no street fighting or troop movements, only a series of enigmatic wall posters praising Hua and appealing for unity. Day after day, fleets of limousines converged on the Great Hall of the People for what was believed...
...that), memory (Mama said "Salt later") and the availability of ingredients (okra, salad greens, fresh shrimp). It is further complicated by the fact that many great Southern cooks have traditionally been black women who spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt wrote in The Savannah Cookbook, "is rather like trying to write down the music to the spirituals which they sing...
...that Yves' cloaks and skirts are "too wide to pass through the Metro turnstiles." The unkindest cut came from a jury voting during the week of the showing for the new Golden Thimble award-haute couture's would-be Oscar: it gave the honor to the classic Mme. Gres (runner-up: Emanuel Ungaro), without even mentioning Saint Laurent...
After half a decade of small advances and continual frustrations, Itard finally gave up on his work with Victor, who lived out his life, still animal-like, under the attentive eye of a Mme. Guerin, in Paris. Given the space Lane allots to "Itard's Legacy," he seems to feel that the young doctor's contribution to the science of education made his project a success. But Itard considered his work with Victor a total failure, preferring to be remembered for his invention of a sign language for the deaf. Bringing the wild child back into society had been...
UNFORTUNATELY, neither thinness of intellect nor haste in production are suitable to the treatment of the human psyche. Human beings are not constructible puzzles. The great disappointment with Letters to My Mother lies in its unfulfilled potential. After all, Mme. Simenon seems to be a genuinely mysterious personage: a woman who could live with her husband for years and never speak a word to him so intense was her hatred; a woman so distrustful that even as she lay dying, she could doubt her son's motives and ask, "Georges, why have you come...