Word: rue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June of 1980, Lessie McMiller took a $44,000 second mortgage on his Oakland, Calif., home to buy the La Rue restaurant in Emeryville, Calif., and go into business for himself. Yet no sooner did he open his doors than the Bay Area restaurant business began to dry up. For a while, Me Miller's suppliers delayed payments on his monthly food and laundry bills, but then they began demanding cash on delivery. As his debts grew-eventually to more than $4,000 per month in payments-McMiller tried to borrow his way out of trouble, but no bank...
...simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas, alone and aging, in the apartment she shared with Stein. Mushroom Pie in the Rue Christine is less about Toklas and her devoted entourage than it is about Brinnin searching, like his characters, for a vehicle for recognition...
...comes as close as conscious craft can bring her, yet succeeds mainly in communicating her own edginess. What's missing, very simply, is the kind of natural charm an actress like Irene Dunne used to bring to roles like this, an ability to modulate from humor to rue almost, it seemed, without thinking...
...Pryce-Jones by Michael Rand, art director of the London Sunday Times, include few dead bodies or bleeding babies. What you see are storm troopers touring the Eiffel Tower, young couples flirting in the streets of Mesnilmontant, and an old woman, who wears a yellow star, hurrying down the rue de Rivoli. People lived, some very normally, through all of those years. Most, like that old woman, probably never conceived of battles on the Eastern front, or Auschwitz. It is with Rand's pictures and a group of excerpted interviews that the author paints his truest protrait of wartime Paris...
...Barton, from Toronto, favors contemporary fantasies, steeped in rue and irony, like The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy. With his bemused schoolboy's face, Barton roams the stage, bending at the waist to beseech from his listeners the sympathy due this magically animated figure of China who-would you believe it?-falls in love but, alas, keeps smashing himself into pieces and being reassembled as a porcelain horse or, worse, a dinner set just before he can properly go awooing...