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...Shah has often been criticized for enjoying a sumptuous life-style while his people suffer economic distress. His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings) is, at 58, trim and fit. He and his wife, Empress Farah, 40, Crown Prince Reza, 18, and three other children, shuttle among five palaces in Iran. The Shah enjoys a good game of tennis, skiing at St. Moritz, and flying his own JetStar. He works even harder than he plays, frequently putting in 15-hour days, which are often spent conferring with a handful of trusted advisers...
Over the the years, Bösendorfer has custom-built magnificent pianos for the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, and for the czar of Russia. Bösendorfers have been owned by such masters as Anton Rubinstein, Gustav Mahler, Ignace Paderewski and more recently by Béla Bartok and Frank Sinatra. After World War II, however, production fell from its peak in 1913 to around 100 pianos a year. For one thing, the factory, once a monastery, needed modernizing. For another, hauteur some times precluded sales; one director was said to have dismissed a customer...
...Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The clip job took place during a party Hoveyda tossed to inaugurate Sebou's newly expanded Manhattan salon. Why give a bash for a hairdresser? Because Sebou used to be personal hairdresser and makeup man for Iran's Empress Farah. Besides, Hoveyda, who is a painter and novelist and has lectured on literature and film at Columbia University, believes that hair-styling is an art. "Everybody is creative in some capacity. That applies to hairdressers," he says. In fact, Hoveyda occasionally expends some of his creative energy by cutting...
...enough to have audiences believing that you have knocked off the reigning empress of sunsweet, Southern California rock. But it's worse having to take some of her knocks. Bonoff's first album was greeted with widely enthusiastic reviews. A flintheart might, however, worry about an occasionally unreliable voice and a tendency, like Ronstadt's, toward a mood of languid victimization, as when the heartsore protagonist of Falling Star confides: "It rains a lot inside my heart...
...house of Lanvin whipped up a gold lame coronation gown, highlighted by 935,000 sequins and gold pieces, for Empress Catherine. Cost...