Hints and tips:
...As the roll call tells, it’s one of the few safe places left to be a dead white male genius....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...The white wine is aromatic with bitter afternotes that bring layers of complexity....
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
...A mansion was built on the site of the ruin in the late 18th century, and added to over time, creating an L-shaped structure along the cliff....
...Joe Biden launched his White House bid on Thursday, entering a crowded Democratic field with a speech on “the battle for the soul of this nation” under President Donald Trump....
...Departures Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oréal heiress, David Rockefeller; Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Helmut Kohl, Simone Veil, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Martin McGuinness, Manuel Noriega....
...Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter Ernest L Arbuckle professor of business administration, Harvard Business School I read Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson while thinking about the need for institutional change...
...In the Marmottan’s “Promenade près d’Argenteuil”, also 1873, Monet depicts his wife in the same airy white gown as an anonymous figure blending into landscape, her son at a distance....
...But with Donald Trump installed in the White House, the company is now banging that American drum more forcefully than before....
...Chanel did it first — with Ernest Beaux, Henri Robert, Jacques Polge and now Olivier Polge....
...Ernest Hemingway once advised a friend: “If you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars.”...
...Mr Ailes said to Esquire magazine. “Because they’re phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They’re comfortable with them.”...
...Few collectors agreed – although Georges de Bellio, a bold Romanian, bought “Le Pont de l’Europe”, and rash department store magnate Ernest Hoschedé paid 800 francs for “Impression, soleil levant”....
...He’d become a semi-disillusioned believer in the gospel of L. Ron Hubbard and the pseudo-psychiatry of Dianetics....
...I thought about my friend Fran Lebowitz, who wears a blue blazer, white Charvet shirt, jeans and JM Weston shoes …a uniform she claims is the ideal for “not writing”....
...Ernest Rutherford, the greatest physicist of his day, is ticked off by his wife for hogging the blackberry and apple pie....
...“The story goes that Gabrielle Chanel asked Ernest Beaux, a perfumer she was having an affair with, to make a perfume for her....
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