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...found in the back lounge. The lights are warm and low, and the dark wood paneling evokes an Old World ambiance. Choose from a wide selection of ports, sherries and wines brought to you by scantily clad waitresses. Light fare such as quesadillas or hummus and pita bread are also available...
...sofa, the Harvard community shelled out $553,132 for victims of December’s tsunami in South Asia, according to the University’s official tally released last week. No small sum, to be sure, though we should note the Harvard College Fund expenses that much bread before lunch...
...convulsion of grief after Princess Diana's 1997 car accident, Parker Bowles--whom Diana outed as Prince Charles' extramarital lover in a 1994 television interview--became the most hated person in Britain; in one infamous incident, she was chased from her local grocery store by shoppers pelting her with bread rolls. For two years after Diana's death, Charles and Camilla were too radioactive to be seen together publicly. Slowly, though, they progressed from appearing at the same event to standing on the same dais to sharing a chaste public kiss. To make sure she remained anodyne, Parker Bowles rarely...
...time he died, in 1989, at 84, Dali's wobbly postwar output and his threadbare shenanigans had tarnished his reputation for good--or so it seemed. But reappraisal is the bread and butter of the art world. Which brings us to the major Dali retrospective that opens this week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that...
...rewards patience with its involving story that offers plenty of unexpected twists. One of the book's particular pleasures is its caustic examination of the English and French culture clash. The wealthy Anglais who buy property in Normandy but never bother to interact with the natives, short of buying bread and cheese, are held up to scorn, as are the snobby nouveau riche native French who hold the English in contempt. (One point of criticism: the inconsistent style of leaving the French untranslated in some cases and fully translated in others becomes annoying...