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...Once Sergei Diaghilev brought his ballet company to dance Les Sylphides at a Porter garden party. Diaghilev insisted on a few props: fireworks, a 50-foot statue of Venus (which was hauled through the canals by two barges and set up in the garden), and 20,000 candles to adorn the trees. Looking things over before the party began, Diaghilev decided that he would need 200,000 candles. "So," Porter recalls, "I got 200,000 candles...
...Forty different museums, galleries, and private collections loaned the exhibits to the Museum. They are examples only of European masters from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries, including "old favorites" and rare, but lesser known works. Names like Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Van Dyck adorn the canvasses...
Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...
Father Wilson tosses out a few hints on how penitents can make themselves less tedious to priests:* 1) don't adorn the tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable to tell him something that will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn...
Sponsoring a mammoth masquerade ball Thursday night, the Hotel Commander offers College students a bevy of real live pumpkins to adorn their broomsticks in celebration of Halloween...