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Afghanistan has been subject to so many invasions and influences that new terms have had to be found for some of its art, as in Greco-Buddhist. The latter stems from the arrival of the best known of the conquerors, the Macedonian Alexander the Great. Pierre Cambon, chief conservator of Paris' Guimet Museum and commissioner of this exhibition, explains that although Alexander the Great ruled Afghanistan for only three years [330-327 B.C.] and died in his early 30s, his adventures and the mystique that surrounded them helped build yet another of the bridges to Afghanistan, this time reaching from...
...drive Dodi and Diana. It is impossible to judge from the jerky, heavily edited tape whether Paul was steady or wobbling as he prepared for his assignment. In the last image of him alive, Paul pulls away from the curb at a normal speed and heads down the rue Cambon...
...Range Rover. Meanwhile, Dodi, Diana and a Fayed bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, 29, would be driven away by Paul in a smaller Mercedes 280 leased by the hotel. At 12:20 a.m. Paul pulled that car up to a rear entrance of the hotel off the narrow rue Cambon. "I saw happiness in their faces," says a woman who watched the couple exit the hotel that night. "They were laughing...
...ahead and turned up at 3 in the afternoon, you could see a free show with live models and maybe get a glimpse of the couturier. Perhaps I got hooked when I saw Chanel herself surveying the defile, crouched at the top of that mirrored staircase on the rue Cambon, watching her models descend...
...instance, the Met examiners found on Ingres' Odalisque en Grisaille a monogram enclosed in a circle, which Ingres' student Armand Cambon used to sign his works. X rays made by Hubert von Sonnenburg, the museum's restorer, revealed that there was no underpainting or preliminary sketches in the Velasquez portrait of Philip IV, so Met experts concluded it was probably a copy, since most great artists sketch in some tentative ideas before they produce the completed work...