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...here and there to make the females more active. In "The Twelve Huntsmen," she has the prince collapse at the key moment, not the girl. The Maid of the North, in the original version, fends off a suitor by talking up the disadvantages of leaving home to join a stranger's household...
None of the pursuers was charged with a crime. Shrugs a New York police spokesman: "We have a dead body on the subway tracks. Murder doesn't come into it." Yet just why the youths assaulted the young stranger remains a mystery-or why they laughed as he died. Says a policeman who had tried to rescue Coury: "They all thought it was a big joke...
...Mitterrand's career. Says Muller. I arrived just as the Socialist-Communist alliance engineered by Mitterrand was breaking up. I am leaving just as his star reaches its apex " Muller, who is moving to New York as an associate editor, will be replaced by Jordan Bonfante. no stranger to Europe's ways. Bonfante was a LIFE correspondent in both Paris and London and served as TIME's Rome bureau chief from 1973 to 1979. He has been a writer and editor in the World section for the past two years. After working on this week...
...then the 16-year-old Vasya was a stranger. He had been four when his mother was taken away, and he was dispatched to one of the orphanages for the children of the enemies of the people. In Kolyma, mother and son found a means of communicating with each other by reciting poetry during their first night together. Those lines, she recalls, were "a bulwark against the inhumanity of the real world ... a form of resistance." Vasya (who grew up to be the brilliant Russian novelist Vasili Aksyonov) told her "Now I understand what a mother is ... you can recite...
...metropolitan culture of France, Pissarro lived at an angle to it. He was not only an immigrant -he had been born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, the son of a well-off storekeeper-he was also a Jew. In this sense he was twice a stranger in France, and his clan loyalty, his commitment to the tiny republic of the family, his extreme probity and political radicalism were connected, one may surmise, to his sense of outsidership. More than anything else, he loved painting...