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...last week was Arion's even better second issue, with English Poet Christopher Logue's new version of The Iliad's Book XVI, which culminates in a bloody battle between Greeks and Trojans. Among Logue's curdling visual effects...
...Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once a dining room), most of the rich have had at least a second*#151;and often...
...real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
...Same Dignity." Famed in his own lifetime for his miraculous cures of the dying, Brother Martin was venerated by Limeños as a potential saint almost from the day of his death. He was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837, and Pope Pius XI reopened the investigation of his life in 1926, after devotion to him had spread outside Peru to the U.S. and Africa...
...TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs at 10 Mon., May 28 XIII TuThs at 11 Mon., June 4 XIV TuThs at 12 Wed., May 23 XV TuThs at 1 Tu., June 5 XVI TuThs at 2 Tu., June 5 XVII TuThs at 3 Fri., June 1 XVIII TuThs at 4 Fri., June...