Hints and tips:
...As a teenager, Babitz wrote to Catch-22’s author Joseph Heller: “Dear Joseph Heller, I am a stacked eighteen-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer.”...
...We find an anguished Jacob holding up the bloodied cloak of his son Joseph (a Guercino rediscovery of 1995, est $1.5mn-$2mn) and Christ humiliated at the hands of brutish soldiers (Valentin de Boulogne,...
...What could have induced Conté to make a gift of so profitable an asset? The answer, according to the prosecution, was Mamadie Touré, the youngest of Conté’s four wives....
...After the British forbade the supply of graphite to the French, Nicholas-Jacques Conté came to the rescue. Conté was a French army officer, balloonist, adventurer — and pencil engineer....
...Joseph Zen, an outspoken retired Hong Kong cardinal, called it a “betrayal”....
...Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minister, announced the decision after a telephone call with Joseph Muscat, Malta’s premier, according to Italy’s main press agency Ansa....
...Mr Conte, for one, is looking forward to round two....
...Again via social media, he contacted industry veterans Dennis Jans of CharterJet International and Joseph Amissah of Blue Cube Aviation....
...It has 63 rooms and food from chef Yoann Conte, who has two Michelin stars at his restaurant near Annecy....
...When the impresario first announced a new production of Les contes d’Hoffmann, the stellar principals were to be Rolando Villazón, René Pape, Elina Garanca and our diva du jour, Anna Netrebko, portraying...
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