Word: proust
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...designer who is not surefire copy for the press. So it comes as something of a surprise that Caroline Rennolds Milbank's Couture fills a real need. Very little of substance has been written about couturiers. Most of the best commentary on their work is squirreled away in novels: Proust's chronicling of the shift from Belle Epoque bustles to the more natural silhouette, Fitzgerald's and Waugh's pointillist evocations of '30s glamour, Mary McCarthy's accurate, often satiric eye for all feminine strategies...
...this movie? Imagine yourself at an Adams House party, and listening the entire evening to the emphatically casual dropping of supposedly famous artsy names. This movie is hardly more subtle in its eagerness to describe Hemingway's galoshes and Proust's knowledge of South American parrots...
...case Pete's sentiments and strangely convoluted prose forays don't convince people that he knows a lot about Life's Important Questions, Townshend peppers his stories with a bibliography of the Very Impressive Writers he knows about. He refers to Proust and Joyce. He lists Conrad, Burgess, Bashevis Singer and Balzac as writers he's keen on, as well as P.G. Wodehouse and H.E. Bates: "I read fairly heavy stuff. To mention all the authors might make me sound pretentious...
EVERY YEAR around this time, I have to live through an ordeal. I am sitting at the lunch table, listening to the usual idle chatter about Proust's toenails and the meaning of life, when suddenly it starts...
...eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the shooting stopped. In London, King George V celebrated by opening a bottle of brandy $ undisturbed since Waterloo. In Paris, Marcel Proust praised "the miraculous and vertiginous Peace." In Washington, President Woodrow Wilson looked for "something much better and more lasting than the selfish competitive interests of powerful states...