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...seeming not to pay attention to anything, let me know," he encourages a visitor. "No, I'm serious. I'll need some advice as I go along...
...ancestors. The burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded, en masse, through an empty stage set. Nobody here...
...three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor to the house said it has had an air of neglect since McNamara's wife Margaret died in 1981. McNamara, who won't be back at the house until the fall, told the Cape Cod Times that his visits include "running down to the beach and having a little swim in the nude...
Despite repeated assurances that the trial is safe, Nantucketers--who are typically weary of something as innocuous as an occasional summer visitor--so far have balked...
Alagic's wife Mirsada, 39, wipes away a tear. She will not meet the visitor's eyes because she is mortified at the state of their lives. The house isn't clean, the children are always hungry, and the last of the food is almost gone. She says she has only one wish, which she prays for every day: "I want to survive...