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Born in 1902 to wealthy and well-connected Barcelona family—his uncle, Güell, was the patron of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí—Sert would flee first from fascism in Spain and then again from Paris with the onset of World...
...something else. It is the perfect place for middle-aged men to feign a fascination with Renaissance art in endeavors of female flattery. “I painted that,” one man whispered in my ear as I observed a work by Diego Velasquez. While one regular patron of the event raved about all of the gorgeous men she had encountered there, two female first-time divorcees complained that it was too crowded to actually meet anyone...
...City Hall to make a political statement about Boston’s recent ban on smoking in public places. SMASH mobs might also combine fun with social-capital building: hundreds of Cambridge residents might be told to don a funny hat, visit a specific local restaurant and join another patron in a funny hat for lunch-time conversation...
...occurred in September 1991, when Byrne allegedly assaulted Joseph Mulry, a patron of the Jukebox, a nightclub where Byrne worked part-time. Stearns prohibited the prosecution from entering evidence of the Mulry case for the time being, but mentioned in his ruling that the prosecutors might attempt to bring it up later...
...word maudlin derives from her reputation as a tearful penitent.) Centuries of Catholic teaching also established her colloquial identity as the bad girl who became the hope of all bad girls, the saved siren active not only in the overheated imaginations of parochial-school students but also as the patron of institutions for wayward women such as the grim nun-run laundries featured in the new movie The Magdalene Sisters. In the culture at large, writer Kathy Shaidle has suggested, Magdalene is "the Jessica Rabbit of the Gospels, the gold-hearted town tramp belting out I Don't Know...