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...period was in Moshe Mizrahi's 1977 film, La Vie Devant Soi (Madame Rosa in English), in which she played a Jewish ex- prostitute and survivor of a concentration camp. The theme of Jewish life in France was also the subject of her best-selling novel, Adieu, Volodia, which appeared this year. She had previously published two memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be (1976) and Le Lendemain, elle etait souriante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ma Belle: Simone Signoret: 1921-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...almost all the feelings of which the human soul was made up. I want to organize a final parade of those feelings." A fine state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols of the new order, Andrei Babichev and his protege Volodia. Babichev is Ivan's brother, a revolutionary who has been rewarded with the directorship of the Food Industry Trust. He is a glutton whose finest efforts go into the creation of a salami so good, so cheap, so nutritious that it will win at an international exposition. His idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Truth from Fools | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Whether" by the chaste Vesta Volodia is out of the Russian spirit, though in itself a good story. In this it is robbed of the gentle sting of parody. "Silent as a cat he rose to his feet and swung his great two-handed sword over her head." This is romance, not realism. And I feel sure Vesta's compatriots wouldn't let their sense of romance run away with them after her fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEES GREATER POWER IN "NEWER REPUBLIC" | 3/28/1924 | See Source »

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