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Beaux-Arts design was various. Its major works run from the quiet classicism of Charles Percier's arcades along the Rue de Rivoli - one of the stateliest parade grounds in the world - to the exuberance of Garnier's Opera. But there was always a concern (surprising as it must sound after the years of propaganda) for functional clarity, and it shows in the superbly detailed drawings that make up the show at MOMA...
...pornography is not confined to the movies. In the Place Pigalle and along the Rue St. Denis, there are now dozens of dirty book stores, sex shops and théátres érotiques. A full leather-and-whip set sells for $125, and there are inflatable plastic dolls with all the proper-or improper-accouter-ments that...
...nights were reserved for sordid encounters. Cavafy secretly kept a room in a brothel on Alexandria's Rue Mosquée Attarine and took willing boys there. But he expressed no more than the most fleeting qualms about his homosexuality. He seems to have been much more disturbed by his autoerotic propensities. As Biographer Liddell explains, "In Egypt the name for this practice '39' is popularly explained by the myth that [masturbation] is 39 times more exhausting than any other sexual...
Milne wears his rue with a certain deference. Most of his revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to Owl, "You and I have brains. The others just have fluff," Milne makes clear that "the others" emphatically included his mother. She was dim, she hated games and was good only at gardening, interior decoration and tying parcels-the one "practical thing she was properly taught in her whole life...
...edge of sanity, for instance, he kept running through his head a "private screening" of 13 Rue Madeleine, an interminable Jimmy Cagney spy movie. In his cell, he sang Don't Fence Me In, Mairzy Doats and the Marines' Hymn, and in every way used his dream of returning to America to keep his spirits up. There is an astonishing passage in the book describing how he began walking from one end of his cell to the other, counting each measured footstep as he imagined himself walk ing out of prison into the suburbs of Moscow, crossing into...