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...of weeks, but proper, open-ended living — Oscar Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn Monroe and Howard...
...metopera.org Photograph: Ken Howard...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...In the first two days, we would visit the surviving gentry houses of Stamford and the great palaces of the plutocrat nobility outside York, including Beningbrough and Castle Howard....
...But Mr Vilar, 64, who denies all the charges, has spent the last three weeks in the Metropolitan Correctional Center a federal prison close to the financial district in New York's lower Manhattan trying...
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