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Jones: A blind-date virgin, Jessica had looked Kauble up in the Cabot online facebook prior to the date. “I thought that he looked like ‘The Rock’ from professional wrestling. But in real life he was very normal, hot even,” she says...
...painter. A man with similar features appears in other works, sometimes with the direct gaze typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1608-1613), and he used it as a stand-in for Troy in Laocoön (early 1610s). (Laocoön and his sons were destroyed by snakes for suggesting that the wooden horse was not as innocent as it seemed...
...would really like her voice not to be heard everywhere all the time. Luckily, she now has enough control to prevent such a thing from happening. In mid-2002, after Come Away with Me had shocked everyone by selling a million records almost entirely on word of mouth, Virgin, the bigger corporate sister of Jones' tiny record label, Blue Note, presented her with an absurdly upbeat remix of her song Don't Know Why, which they hoped to turn into a pulsing pop-radio hit. "It was a full-on drum machine thing," says Jones. "Don't know...
...luxury travel. Today, the train's original 1920s and '30s carriages are decorated with marquetry panels, finely cast solid brass and Art Deco paintings. The traditional London-to-Venice trip takes 31 hours and costs $2,400 one way. But the train's trophy trip, which mirrors its virgin journey from Paris to Istanbul, takes place only once a year?and costs $4,000 more...
...airlines pooh-pooh the topic. "Honestly, I have never heard of it happening," says Cathay Pacific spokeswoman Lisa Wong. At KLM, flag carrier for the Netherlands, spokesman Youssef Eddini was taken aback that we even popped the question. "It is simply not allowed," he ruled. Even the spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic?whose owner, Richard Branson, once intimated that he would like to introduce double beds on his planes?said, "It's illegal and violators could be handed over to the proper authorities...