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...Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, launched into his classic, "Maggie's Farm," the thick, biting sound of the band immediately announced to the audience that this concert was not going to be a swan song for an artist past his prime, no nostalgia trip for those wishing to rekindle fond memories of the 60s. Much of the audience knew the songs by heart and cheered wildly when they recognized them, and each rendition stood...
...stereotype of the whoring petro-sheik, he calls himself a "calorie counter" who doesn't drink or smoke and has an American's obsession with fitness (he now weighs in at 136 lbs.). His only vice seems to be, hardly surprisingly, an appetite for luxury. He is very fond of his 282-ft. Kingdom 5-KR, the ostentatious yacht formerly owned by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and then by Donald Trump, who called it the Trump Princess before the banks took it back. Alwaleed keeps the boat moored in the southern French resort of Cannes. He takes about three...
...Nazis' plunder of art was carried out on the express instructions of Adolf Hitler, a failed art student and amateur watercolorist before he turned to mass murder. Fond of Old Masters, Hitler dreamed of building a huge stock of cultural masterpieces in the Reich. Hermann Goring, head of the Luftwaffe and later Hitler's right-hand man, eventually assembled one of the largest private art collections in Europe. Many of those works were confiscated from Jews...
...Williams (Kevin Spacey) deals in antiques and other old secrets, with a suavity that beguiles the gentry. When he kills a young punk who was his lover, Williams loses a few friends but attracts the attention of a Yankee journalist (John Cusack) who becomes his fond, skeptical biographer...
...this isn't exactly prime time for thinking about lawn and garden care. With temperatures from Hartford, Conn., to Boise, Idaho, averaging around the freezing mark in the month of December, most sane people--carolers notwithstanding--stay indoors as much as possible. But spring springs eternal, and so do fond thoughts of cookouts, lawn mowing and garden planting...