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“... travel to the real thing, it is still serving workers at the beginning of the 21st. ‘Poor Virgin Mary,’ the custodian said. ‘If only you knew what people ask her for.’ Like the undercover writers, almost all Aubenas’s fellow workers were women; most CDDs in France are taken by women, many of them working part-time. Politics rarely came up. When ...”

“... who took it on as a commercial assignment while devoting more serious attention to his Virgin Mary in modern dress – or undress, since she is naked much of the time in Je vous salue, Marie (the film has a spiritual, reverential dimension, but one can see why there was Catholic discontent). Détective is Bande à part two decades later. It is also a ...”

“... she found work at Carnaud, making gas masks and oilcans; she was laid off after a few weeks. Then Renault hired her. At the end of August, she was fired. The experience of dangerous, physically exhausting and soul-destroying factory work forms the background to La Condition ouvrière, a collection of texts – journal entries, letters, brief essays ...”

“... face, he sees the little red spot she has on her forehead. Gently he scratches it – and wins a Renault 5. All these come from musicians, George the only one of my friends who still hears jokes or moves in circles that tell them, or make them up. 27 June. Most adverse comments on John Redwood’s appearance remark on his resemblance to Mr Spock or someone ...”

“... tended to prefer gay authors, hence her acquaintance with Genet. Some she liked – the novels of Mary Renault, for instance, fascinated her – but others of a deviant persuasion she was less keen on; Denton Welch, for instance (a favourite of Norman’s), whom she felt was rather unhealthy; Isherwood (no time for all the meditation). As a reader she ...”