Word: empress
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Visitors should make their base in the seaside town of Biarritz--as chic as Cannes but less flashy. Biarritz is blessed with wide beaches, fashionable boutiques, bustling bistros and the Hotel du Palais (011-33-559-41-64-00), originally the summer palace of Empress Eugenie, wife of France's last Emperor, Napoleon III. Rooms start at $455 a night and range to $11,000 for one of three 5,000-sq.-ft. royal suites. The Palais is among the world's last "grande dame" hotels and offers impeccable service, fine dining and a modern...
...cultural credentials was Josephine de Beauhamais, best known as wife to Napoleon. While her husband relied on her for emotional support, his empire relied on her for her impeccable taste in art. Eleanor P. Delorme will present her new biography, Josephine: Napoleon’s Incomparable Empress, in a lecture hosted by the Harvard Bookstore at the Sackler Museum at 6 p.m. on Apr. 10. Complimentary tickets are available in advance at the Harvard Bookstore...
...there any way to generalize about Asian art? Not usefully, which the Houston show makes clear. There's no master key to both Kuichi Uchida's stately Portrait of the Empress, from 1872, and Daido Moriyama's feral Stray Dog, from 99 years later. The sheer multitude of Asian sensibilities is the first lesson that the explosion of Asian art has to teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi...
They're cousins, and What a Crazy Pair The name calling, the accusations, the ill will--oh, the fun that occurs in a family when a relative dies and money is at stake. Days after the death of advice empress Ann Landers (real name: Esther Lederer), her daughter and niece are engaged in a vitriolic feud like the one that once consumed Landers and her twin sister, Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren. Landers' daughter MARGO HOWARD, right, accused Van Buren's daughter, JEANNE PHILLIPS, left, of trying to cash in on Landers' death. Phillips, who inherited Dear Abby, went...
...keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses to star in Hollywood as well as Italian movies. The list is long and enticing: Valentina Cortese, who made the 40s "Thieves Highway"; delicate Pier Angeli and her twin sister Marisa...