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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 71
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  4.     DIED. Michel Leiris, 89, French writer and anthropologist;
  5. in Saint-Hilaire, France. His 1939 autobiography, L'Age d'Homme
  6. (Manhood), an appalling  description of his fantasies and
  7. failures, is considered a landmark in confessional literature.
  8. Author Susan Sontag called it the work of "a man, partly
  9. anesthetized, curiously fingering his own wounds."
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