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...BIRD'S NEST (276 pp.)-Shirley Jackson-FarrarStraus &Young...
...Model is less fragmentary and more engrossing. An artist (Daniel Gelin) and a model (Simone Simon) have a passionate affair, set up housekeeping in a beautifully improbable love nest, quarrel and separate. Up until this point, the love story might have been written by Colette, but De Maupassant ends it with the detached irony that is his trademark...
Communist Russia has always been a proud patron of the ballet, possibly because one of the Bolshevik Revolution's opening oratorical guns was fired from a ballerina's love nest...
...garrulous others, also, gabbing and garlanded from one nest of culture-vultures to another: people selling the English way of life and condemning the American way as they swig and guzzle through it; people resurrecting the theories of surrealism for the benefit of remote parochial female audiences who did not know it, was dead, not having ever known it had been alive; people talking about Etruscan pots and pans to a bunch of dead pans and wealthy pots in Boston...
...unshaven soldier lies back on his pillow and exercises his good right arm. Every so often he twitches his left shoulder too, to exercise it, but where his left arm should be there is a white bandaged pouch like a hornets' nest taped to his body. This foreign legionnaire's left arm was amputated on the battlefield at Dienbienphu...