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...third member of the team, Emile Zola Berman, was once described by an associate as a "marvelously warm person" who looks like "a living version of Ichabod Crane." Last week he spotted Mary Sirhan shyly working her way through the reporters in the courtroom. Berman bowed gracefully and kissed Mrs. Sirhan's hand-a gesture for which she was obviously unprepared. Nor was her son prepared to be defended by a Jew for a crime he allegedly committed because of his victim's pro-Israeli campaign oratory...
...those on trial: Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of the imprisoned writer Yuri Daniel, and Pavel Litvinov, the 31-year-old physicist grandson of Stalin's prewar Foreign Minister. The reasoned, quiet pleas of the two dissenters are an eloquent echo of all those, from Socrates to Zola, who risked their own freedom in order to defend the right of men to speak freely...
...Lacouture, turned "an angry patriot into a modern revolutionary." Setting himself up as a retoucher of photographs and a painter of "Chinese antiquities" manufactured in France, Ho changed his name from Nguyen Tat Thanh to Nguyen Ai Quoc-"Nguyen the patriot." A wraithlike figure "always armed with a book" (Zola, Shakespeare, Dickens, as well as Marx), he was nicknamed, unaccountably, "little M. Ferdinand...
Many also achieved secondary but more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil. If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career...
Françoise Mallet-Joris writes in the tradition of Émile Zola. Her plots are complex and thickly populated, and her characters move up and down through the floors of French society like a gilt-and-glass Parisian elevator-and, often, at about the same speed...