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...example, "Isabella" is about the "camp language" of Auschwitz. Isabella understands it no more than her French or Hungarian fellow prisoners. The words are German and so is she. But the words stand for ideas that "not even God can understand." Gas chambers. Extermination. Yet Isabella survives. "Suffering doesn't kill you," she sings, "only death...
...Gardner Museum is located a few blocks from the MFA. This Venetian Palace houses the collection of Isabella Stuart Gardner, who apparently stipulated in her will that all the paintings in the collection must be left in the exact position she left them in; nothing can be re-arranged to make room for a special show. But the collection, which includes at least a smattering of almost every great master's work and several exquisite antiques, is magnificent. And if the pictures never change, the elaborate arrangements of flowers in the huge couryard do, and the gardens outside provide...
World Headlines. The son of the late Tory M.P. Frank Goldsmith, a Rothschild relative who owned hotels in France, Jimmy went to Eton, then turned playboy, gambling for high stakes at London's gaming tables. At 20. he made world headlines by eloping with Isabella Patiño, 18, daughter of Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patiño. After Isabella's sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1954, Jimmy bought a pair of pharmaceutical firms and went into business...
...15th century, Portugal's 200,000 Jews made up one-fifth of the population. Many of them were refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, and they came to play an important role in finance and scholarship. When King Manuel I sought to marry the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, however, Spain's fervently Catholic monarchs told Manuel that he would have to get rid of the Jews in return...
When she was a child, Isabella Rossellini made up her mind not to be an actress like Mommy or a film director like Daddy. She wanted to be a circus ringmaster. Now, at age 24, the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is still hung up on rings-only these house a different breed of cat. As a reporter for Italian television, Isabella has just finished interviewing 40 U.S. boxers -including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis-for an upcoming six-hour special on the history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were...