Hints and tips:
...Two millennia before, the Romans sacked the original, only to turn against themselves in the ensuing peace....
...Among the neo-Roman grandeur was the bathos of washing-machine tariffs and soyabean shipments....
...ham croquetas “in the style of Ana”, the chef and Vidal’s wife (the restaurant has been in the family for more than 60 years)....
...JM I quote Gore Vidal’s dictum that craft must always be the same, art must always be different. I don’t necessarily agree with those stipulations....
...There, he worked with archeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to redecorate five ancient Roman busts in radiant hues similar to those they would have originally boasted....
...A spectacular mash-up of knights, Roman legionaries and magical animals....
...Vidal suggested that this was a new generation of airport, that this was a “gathering place”, a “piazza”, a place people would want to come to whether they were flying or not....
...He ended his days at his regular hang-out, Hollywood’s Ma Maison restaurant, draping himself, as Gore Vidal once described, in “bifurcated tents to which, rather idly, lapels, pocket flaps, buttons were...
...That led to social novels such as Myra Breckenridge, again about homosexuality but this time without repercussions, and his first historical re-creation, Julian, about the Roman emperor, as well as Washington...
...Ireland, London, Paris; with Gore Vidal, Tom Stoppard and Bono (!) for expert chat. We even go to Palestine to dig up Herod and his story....
...Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin and Norman Mailer sold more books. Besides, Sontag rarely wrote about America or American writers....
...Max von Sydow and Roman Polanski, no less, play the sinister foreigners. From a mere speck of their DNA you could reconstruct the whole of European art cinema over the past 50 years....
...Orange smoke When in Rome do as the Romans? Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander will keep premier Jan Peter Balkenende company at Sunday's papal inauguration....
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