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...Middle East's most unusual romances. Noor says the six months in the U.S. during Hussein's cancer treatment were among their most enriching times together since the former Princeton cheerleader (ne Lisa Halaby) married the Arab monarch two decades ago. They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work in Jordan via e-mail, spun around in a Volkswagen Beetle, browsed in bookstores, walked in nearby woods and watched Canada geese settling down for autumn nights. "I never managed to get him out Rollerblading," says the Queen, whose Arabic name means "Light of Hussein." And then...
Nevertheless, the incessant production of highly paid portraiture began to chafe on Sargent. Clients kept interfering, pestering him to take this out and paint that in. "It seems there is a little something wrong with the mouth!" he complained to one of his sitters, about the demands of another. "A portrait is a painting with a little something wrong about the mouth!" In 1907, at the age of only 51, Sargent decided to give up doing "paughtraits," as he disparagingly called them--except for those commissions he couldn't refuse, like a 1917 portrait of John D. Rockefeller. Sargent wanted...
...have any office space and we don't have easily accessible storage space," she said. Performers' gowns, she added, which cost $2,000 apiece, are kept in a closet in Loker Commons...
...They've put us off and they've kept putting us off [with negotiations]," said one security guard who wished to remain anonymous...
...told of a woman whose parents-who had kept perfect bank records-died at Auschwitz. After World War II, when she tried to retrieve their accounts, she was repeatedly turned away by the bank, which told her that she needed father's death certificate, which did not exist...