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...life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply a little enlightenment to her realm. With regal practicality she retorted: "Your medium is paper, and paper is always patient. I, Empress that I am, have to write on the sensitive skins of human beings." She did not add that she preferred to write with a knout...
...latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
PALINDROMES: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama; Piel's lager on red rum did murder no regal sleep...
...with almost translucent brown skin, high cheekbones, and compelling eyes set in charcoal shadows, she has a memorable face; her figure-broad-hipped yet lithe, strong yet feminine, medium tall yet commanding-animates any costume she wears, and she can whip a train or thrust a sleeve with regal authority...
...exclusive couturier) was moved to announce: "This year, for the first time since our predecessor selected Brenda Frazier as the Queen of Glamour, we are ready to name the No. 1 Deb of the Year and the nine runners-up. Queen Deb of the Year is Jacqueline Bouvier, a regal debutante who has classic features and the daintiness of Dresden porcelain . . . Her family is strictly 'Old Guard...