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...affair and that she had accidentally "dropped a match" in the Tierra Verde house. But the incident set off the investigations that resulted in charges that Lyons used his position as the convention chief to shake down corporations for millions of dollars, spending the money on houses, jewelry, artwork and a time-share condo near Lake Tahoe...
Black Grape's endearing range of tropes and narrowness of tone would be hypocritical if it did not offend. The album cover features an almost sambo-like purple face, and the inside artwork is a melange of Aunt Jemima figures, smiling Aryan face and blonde hour glass cartoons. "Marbles" opens with the dub of a righteous gospel preacher: "A whistling woman...is an abomination to the lord" and leads into the chorus "Why you say yes when you know you mean no?," playing on current sexual protocol. Of course of few in the crowd might even take issue with...
Monica Lewinsky grew up in a $1.6 million Beverly Hills home. Her parents owned three cars, including a Cadillac and a Mercedes, and spent freely on themselves (symphony season tickets, artwork and wine) and on Monica and her brother Michael, including tennis lessons ($720 a month), baby sitting ($300 a month) and hairstyling for Monica ($100 a month). Vacations frequently involved spending amounts in excess of $20,000 a year. The monthly psychiatrist's bill...
After the war the Gutmanns' surviving children, Lili and Bernard, began to hunt for the paintings they had grown up with. Bernard, who became virtually obsessed with the search, eventually concluded that most of the artwork, including the Degas, had been carried off by Soviet troops at the war's end. When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby...
...result of Feliciano's book that your grandfather may have owned a Monet, do you have a right to it? That is far from obvious. But even if the answer to this question is yes, the French government will give and always would have given you back the artwork if you are the rightful heir. At this stage in the game, however, the onus is and should be on the retriever and not the French government to find and return lost art. The French government, while it could perhaps have made greater publicity efforts in the past, is not behaving...