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...author is as handy with richesses like sweet-sour duck with cherries as she is with simplicities like fruit flans and potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines...
...Vollard's 45 years of work as impresario went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is the kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
Nobody knows how big his output has been. The catalogue raisonné of Picasso's work, begun by his friend Christian Zervos 39 years ago, cannot keep up with this immense, almost monotonous fecundity; it runs to 23 volumes, and has only reached the early 1960s. Some two-thirds of this oeuvre is privately owned by dealers and collectors. Thus, in terms of investment, literally billions of dollars hang upon the survival of his reputation, a fact that accentuates the general reluctance to breathe a word against his work...
...seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses) which was Rimbaud's purpose in debauchery...
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