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...people want independence, we are willing to accept that." So said Portugal's Socialist Foreign Minister, Mario Soares, in an interview last week with TIME'S Martha de la Cal. Seated in an ornate salon of the 18th century Palacio das Necessidades (Palace of the Necessities), Soares discussed some problems that Portugal's military government faces in extricating itself from the country's African territories. Among his points...
...arrange themselves as a series of hurdles, which the actors negotiate with disheartening lack of success. James found his drama in nuance and inference, in the risky currents of society which can warm or chill in their natural course. When James' people talk about being invited to a salon or about being cut off, they are employing the author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces...
...fashionable then to hang paintings in a nobleman's elaborate salle de bain. This was a salon, often very elegantly furnished with rugs, tapestries and paintings, to which the nobleman's valet brought a tub of hot water...
...caviar-stocked club room, a brass-railed bar and a lavish grand salon. There is an art gallery, a library and a sauna in the master bedroom. Suede and leather love seats, divans and marble tables are conveniently placed, and for entertainment, Sony videotape monitors and a Thomas electric organ are available. In the gourmet galley, the chef can whip up virtually any dish from terrine of duck to soul food-served with Waterford crystal, Reed and Barton silver and gilded Noritake china...
...Gertrude courted them too. But she was older, more rigid and more jealous of writing talent. There began to be in her a shadow of Proust's tyrannical salonkeeper Mme. Verdurin. Any small slight to Gertrude, even an appearance at a party in someone else's salon, was enough to send Alice to the phone with the cutoff call...