Word: sisterly
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...only eight. The symphony form was still in a formative phase at this time, and included only strings and a few select wind instruments. Mozart composed this piece in his spare time while attending his sick father in London, and, so the story goes, said to his sister Nannerl, "Remind me to give the horn something worthwhile to do!" If that were not enough to stagger anyone, there are moments of soaring loveliness in this Symphony. It has the clarity of sound and rhythm of the Baroque style, though at one point the piece breaks into a hemiola of three...
...than a few bagel experts--individuals who have come to see themselves as the food's self-appointed defenders and trustees. It's as though they've all secretly swore an oath of regional loyalty, one which bars them from acknowledging the integrity of any foreign product. Eventually my sister entered the debate, breaking the deadlock and introducing a sensible if still questionable explanation for discrepancies in bagel quality: bagels are best if boiled, she intoned, and it is this practice--one which is widely observed in New York but not viewed as bagel-making-orthodoxy outside the region--which...
...Wednesday to consider what form the proposed "Diana memorial" will take. More than 7,000 suggestions for a permanant tribute ? ranging from a Diana statue to a Diana Day ? have been received from members of the public. Sifting through them now are Diana's butler, her lawyer, her elder sister, Treasury chief Gordon Brown and film director Richard Attenborough, among others. Fittingly for the Princess' memory, neither Prince Charles nor any other member of the Royal Family have been invited...
...Bernard, began to hunt for the paintings they had grown up with. Bernard, who became virtually obsessed with the search, eventually concluded that most of the artwork, including the Degas, had been carried off by Soviet troops at the war's end. When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby's. That painting is now in London, where the family...
...Will somebody pinch me?" writes Evening Standard columnist Allison Pearson. "Is this the same man who, at his sister's funeral just three months ago, lectured the Windsors on the loving conduct of family life? The same earl who implied that the souls of Princes William and Harry would be safer in the embrace of the Spencers...