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...know that Professor Schama has a splendid offer," said Knowles. "I, along with a large number of other people, would be very sad if they were to leave the area...
Along the streets, we catch the haggard, unslept faces of the besieged, a glimpse of their trudging, cringing body English. Shops boarded up. The driver, who is, improbably, a Russian, pitches the Renault along, overrevving and popping the clutch, to the National Library. It is a splendid 19th century Moorish building that has been hammered so often, so heavily, that it is a gutted shell. In a city where more than 17,000 have been killed and 110,000 wounded since the siege began last spring, it may be odd to be disturbed by the fate of a building...
...Marcel Carne were stark: he could stay and make movies as though nothing were happening and be accused of collaborating, or he could flee to someplace where he could not speak the language well enough to create. Carne stayed. The chief result, Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), is a splendid sentimental tribute to 19th century populist theater, and to the acrobats, clowns, pantomimists and courtesans who created a street life to counter the staid classicism of the Comedie Francaise...
...trip to Washington took place in 1963, when as a Boys Nation representative from Arkansas, he briefly met President John F. Kennedy in a routine grip-and-grin reception in the Rose Garden. Thirty years later, the grainy footage of the two men's quick handshake, broadcast repeatedly in splendid slow motion, helped stake Clinton's claim to representing a new generation of leadership...
...understand that Professor Papaioannou has a splendid opportunity at Columbia, yet of course I hope very much that they will both choose to remain here," Knowles said...