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COMPOSITION #1 by Marc Saporta. Unpaged. Simon & Schuster...
What is surprising about French Neo-Realist Marc Saporta's do-it-yourself novel-which by all logic should have been a boring nonbook-is that it turns out to be a provocative piece of literary gimcrackery. This is in large part due to Saporta's skill at clicking off brisk, precise, sensuous sentences with the cool ease of a man spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree...
They are Joseph A. Porter '64, of Eliot House and Madisonville, Ky.; John M. Lewis '63-3, of Lowell House and Lyndon, Vt.; Jeffrey H. Utter '64, of Lowell House and Auburn; Marc J. Roberts '64, of Eliot House and Bayonne, N.J.; and Clayton T. Koelb '64, of Leverett House and Providence...
When Dior's Marc Bohan took the plunge in evening dresses for his latest collection, fashion writers had something to write home about. The bosom was not only seen, said one, but "almost heard," and the staid New York Herald Tribune found the new neckline "positively clinical...
...Your recent review of The Last Caprice [Aug. 9], describing odd wills and bequests, did not mention the strange testament of Mme. Marc Guzman, who died in 1908, leaving 100,000 francs to the French Academy of Science as an award for the first person "to communicate with inhabitants of any heavenly body other than the planet Mars." Once considered forever unattainable, the fantastic Guzman Prize may conceivably be won before the end of this century by some explorer from Earth who contacts any lunarians, Venusians or other denizens of deep space-except Martians...