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...investors putting money down with IGBE knew about the Alderdice brothers' past. Before striking gold with IGBE, William had tried his luck with a wig salon, a penny arcade, a restaurant and a concert-promotion business. Florida police revealed last week that the brothers had arrest records that over the years included charges of assault, vagrancy, indecent exposure and writing bad checks...
...aria, in which he ardently-if prematurely-credits Violetta's love with taming his fiery spirit, there is a gentle pastorale of lovers picnicking on the grass and gamboling by a stream. Later, a spurned Domingo angrily drags Stratas down a long corridor, bursts into a crowded salon and throws her to her knees as the trombones sound a brusque challenge. It is a chilling moment in its combination of visual image and musical statement, and one that cannot be duplicated in the opera house...
...northern Italy visited that port twice, each time on the run: from a murder charge in Rome in 1606-07, and from the vengeance of the Knights of Malta in 1609-10. He never set up a proper studio with assistants in Naples; he took no pupils, held no salon and had little talent as a courtier. Yet by word of mouth, force of reputation and the example of four or five paintings he executed there, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completely changed the face of Neapolitan painting at the start of the 17th century. A few months after his second...
...deaths effectively finished the Murphys' careers as world-class salon keepers. Gerald abandoned painting, for which he had considerable talent, and as the Depression deepened, reluctantly took over the family business, Mark Cross, the Fifth Avenue leather goods emporium. Villa America was sold. Sara traveled abroad, did volunteer work at a Harlem day care center and tried unsuccessfully to adopt two young brothers enrolled there...
...inaugural run last spring, for example, passengers were encouraged to wear '20s finery, and many did so. On current trips, passengers often don evening clothes for dinner, and the champagne, a special V.S.O.E. label bottled by Laurent Perrier, flows freely. And as Sherwood has promised, "The bar-salon stays open, and our pianist plays on, until the last guest has retired." "When a Broadway baby says good night," plunks Giany Bars at the baby grand piano, "it's early in the morning...