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...With the inimitable music-director Louis Langrée manning the podium – a post he eventually shares with various guests of varying repute – the hum-along agenda began with the Don Giovanni overture and ended...
...And there is little doubt that maintaining a market economy requires a thousand times more paperwork than a Louis XIV-style absolutist monarchy....
...It’s a shame to refer to a painting by Jacques-Louis David as “Imperial kitsch” on the very first page, when “kitsch” didn’t come into use beyond Germany until well into the 20th century....
...The shoppers from China’s less well off provinces that Leung followed tended to be satisfied with the purchase of a belt or a small handbag from Louis Vuitton or Coach....
...Still, with Louis Langrée manning the podium with flashy savoir-faire, communal spirits remained high even when communal precision dipped low....
...Do you ever see him these days manning the ovens of the Plaza Athénée in Paris, the Louis XV in Monte Carlo or his restaurant in New York?...
...He and another quarterback, Peyton Manning, were reckoned to be the best two players in that year’s draft....
...The World Series – contested from Saturday night by the Detroit Tigers and St Louis Cardinals – never had anything to do with the New York World....
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