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...Margutta enjoyed its golden age in the 19th century. Then the hill villages of Anticoli and Saracinesco, which have traditionally supplied artist models to the capital, still sent their handsomest daughters to Margutta studios. Fashionable painters gave parties at which young artists sipped champagne with Adelina Patti, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Wagner was so fascinated with Via Margutta that he considered settling down there. The Marguttiani, appalled at having their peace disturbed by "a German who writes futuristic music," were relieved when the composer abandoned the idea...
...ordinary reader. But the bard's most dedicated fans want their Shakespeare straight. One such was Herbert Farjeon, a British amateur scholar whose special dread was the day when Shakespeare would be read in "Nu Spelin and Nu Punctuashun." In 1933 he brought out not only the handsomest but the best-edited Shakespeare in existence...
...Both were magnificent pieces, devout scenes of Christ under the burden of the cross and accepting the fatal kiss from Judas. But Sassetta's Agony in the Garden, in brilliant gold leaf, soft roses and browns with a rosy-cheeked angel under a cobalt-blue sky, was the handsomest of the three-and the hardest to get. It belonged to an English noblewoman named Lady Mary Catherine Ashburnham, who guarded it jealously in her private gallery, rarely let anyone see the picture, much less talk of buying...
Revolution in Connecticut. Moving to New Canaan, Conn, in 1946, Noyes built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect...
...your handsomest cover ... It gives the illusion of something wonderful inside...