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...retaining key personnel will now be the priority for PPR. Just hours after Ford and De Sole's departure was announced, headhunters in Paris and New York City were deluged with phone calls from companies looking to poach talent. Among the most sought-after prizes are two handbag designers, Maria Grazie Chiure and Pierre Paolo Picciole, who created last season's best-selling horse...
...Maria S. Pedroza
...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
...Milan. After making his debut in 1951 at the age of 30, Corelli became known for roles in Verdi's Aida and Don Carlo, Giordano's Andrea Chenier and Puccini's Turandot. His muscular build and booming voice made him an ideal romantic lead opposite sopranos such as Maria Callas. Corelli liked to hold key notes for as long as possible. Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson claimed Corelli bit her on the neck during a 1961 Boston performance of Turandot because she outlasted him in the climactic note of a duet. (He denied...
...gratuitous violence and narco-wealth have made them a mafia in rebel fatigues. A farc-Shining Path merger is the last thing South America's economically beleaguered Andes region needs. In the Lima shantytown of Raucana - the only community Shining Path ever built in its bloody heyday - shopkeepers like Maria are now afraid to even talk about the group. The Shining Path, she insists, "are still watching...