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  3. Oct. 15, 1990: Died:Michel Leiris
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. Oct. 15, 1990  High Anxiety                          
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 71
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  15. <p>     DIED. Michel Leiris, 89, French writer and anthropologist;
  16. in Saint-Hilaire, France. His 1939 autobiography, L'Age d'Homme
  17. (Manhood), an appalling  description of his fantasies and
  18. failures, is considered a landmark in confessional literature.
  19. Author Susan Sontag called it the work of "a man, partly
  20. anesthetized, curiously fingering his own wounds."
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