High life
If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…
High life
If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…
High life
Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…
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Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…
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A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…
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A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…
High life
New York ‘Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo’ is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid…
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New York ‘Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo’ is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid…
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Ah, spring! The spring of our frostbitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits…
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Ah, spring! The spring of our frostbitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits…
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End of season is always bittersweet, the melting snows a bit like autumn leaves. But the days are longer and…
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End of season is always bittersweet, the melting snows a bit like autumn leaves. But the days are longer and…
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It’s a famous quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one that Elton John should ponder (when he’s not out shopping, that…
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As I was flipping through some television garbage trying to induce sleep, I came upon an old western starring Kirk…
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Athens I am walking on a wide pedestrian road beneath the Acropolis within 200 meters of the remaining Themistoclean wall…
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The secret of eternal youth, according to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, is arrested development, and the penny dropped last week. The…
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Gstaad A naked, very good-looking young man skied down the mountain evoking shrieks of laughter and admiration from the hundred…
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I hate to start with a cliché, but Count Arnaud de Borchgrave d’Altena, who died in Washington DC last week,…
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Gstaad Once upon a time clergymen saw mountain peaks as natural steeples leading them ever closer to God. Doctors considered…
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The good news is that a Greek suppository is about to relieve the EU’s economic constipation. The bad is that…
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Thick snow is falling hard and heavy, muffling sounds and turning the picturesque village postcard beautiful. I am lying in…
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I had a short chat with BBC radio concerning the actor Jack Nicholson, whom I knew slightly during the Seventies…
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This is a good time to write about a nation’s resilience in the face of calamity. I am referring to…
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Gstaad The very end of 2014 laid an egg, and an expensive one at that. I missed David Tang’s bash…
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Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone…
