Word: rome
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...selection of the place and the activities gives couples the chance to express their uniqueness and create their own world. Brooklyn-based artists Amy Madden, 29, and Christopher Quirk, 41, who met as students in Rome, got married privately in New York City in September 2002, and six weeks later they staged a wedding that reflected their artistic interests at the Castello di Montegufoni, a castle in the Tuscan countryside. Sixty guests stayed in the castle for a week, during which friends and family joined the couple in reciting poetry and enacting scenes from The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th...
Last year, the company performed Julius Caesar, in which the would-be emperor, clad in a sequined blue toga, died of a paper cut and Brutus and Antony played rock-paper-scissors for the rule of Rome...
...Along the way he stopped long enough to take exceptional portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Ezra Pound and Alberto Giacometti. "De qui s'agit-il?" is at the BNF until July 27. It will then tour Europe, starting in Barcelona before moving on to Berlin and Rome. As for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, its inaugural show offers 90 works by other photographers Cartier-Bresson admires - including Walker Evans, Robert Doisneau, Sebastião Salgado, as well as Cartier-Bresson's fellow founders of Magnum, David Seymour, Robert Capa and George Rodger. But for all Cartier-Bresson...
...word “empire” is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. The unmatched world position of the United States has led to comparisons with the great historical empires like Rome and Britain...
...alone, to the Umbrian countryside, where he boozes and listlessly cruises for some thrill to replace the boy in silver shorts who broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only as the Bosnian comes to stay, Cockcroft foolishly agrees to abandon the dog in Rome. Trekking home to his master, Timoleon Vieta, "with eyes as pretty as a girl's," charms food, ear tickles and hapless, bizarre love stories out of the strangers he meets. Disappointed love is the sole subject of Rhodes' two earlier books of short stories, and the dog's journey neatly...