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...Jean Phane, a custodian from Harvard Medical School, told the crowd that his salary of $9.65 per hour was inadequate to the expenses of living in the Boston area...
...folly or masterpiece, the French comix artist Stéphane Heuet has decided to adapt Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Proust's masterwork, a seven-volume, 4000-plus page French novel published between 1913 and 1922 will become twelve comicbook volumes published between 1998 and perhaps 2020. The first of these has now been translated into English (NBM Publishing, $19.95, hardcover...
...Proustian? The madeleine scene as adapted by Stéphane Heuet...
...what? As a crude American, I enjoy comix more for how well they entertain me, than for how much mileage I can get out of deconstructing them. I will leave that to the French. As a comic, regardless of its origins, Stéphane Heuet's "Remembrance of Things Past," makes for a fine read, evoking a lost world, not just of physical superficialities, but of the very thoughts of the time. I am sure even the book's harshest critics would agree that a little Proust is better than none...
Harvard's three main unions will all be represented as well: Edward Childs for Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees Local 26, which represents dining hall staff; Alexandra Chisholm for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; and Jean Phane of Service Employees International Union Local 254, whose union represents janitors and custodians...