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Much of the acting is top notch as well. Andrew Watson as the might-have-been-British Consul demonstrates fine sense of control. Watson moves from aged recollector to callow youth with a startling ease. His control of voice and movement, save a few some minor quavers, is excellent. He carries the opening monologue with such success that the audience wonders if he could have carried off a one-man rendition of Travesties...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Half Truths | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Though he will be forever associated with the petites madeleines that inspired Remembrance, Proust was a sensuous, accurate, compulsive recollector of good food. In the delectably illustrated Dining with Marcel Proust (Thames & Hudson; 160 pages; $19.95), Scholar-Cook Shirley King retraces the references and accompanies them with a recipe collection that embraces the cuisine of the Belle Époque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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