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Two home truths may prove useful at this point. One comes courtesy of the uncrowned duke of drop-dead swank, Karl Lagerfeld: "There's no fashion if nobody buys it." Second are the words of Anne-Marie Dubois-Dumée, who assists Maxfield's owner, Tommy Perse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

For Mitterrand the long wait before his ascension to power may have been easier than for politicians with fewer extracurricular interests. "Literature is always for me a privileged paradise," he says. A closet poet, he is lyrical when he speaks of the wonders of nature, and he reads incessantly. "He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitterrand on Mitterrand | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

To the intricate, at times overly-serious structure of the Dos Passos/Paul Shyre adaption, Manulis adds his own twist: in his production, the audience does not view the play U.S.A. perse; rather it views a dress rehearsal of the Dos Passos play--the old play within a play idea. A...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: An American Collage | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 6, 1975 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

> De Gaulle said Malraux never won the Nobel Prize for Literature because "he is catalogued as a Gaullist, and a Gaullist can't have the prize because it is given practically with the approval of the Americans." The diplomat-poet Saint-John Perse, "who has always been against me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General Told Me | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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