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All the usual luminaries were there, with the exception of the incredibly dedicated David Broder, who video-conferenced in from Winterset, Iowa.
These top-dollar portraits of art-world luminaries look good enough to eat.
The principal cemetery of Montmartre, where luminaries of the arts such as the composers Berlioz and Offenbach lie buried, may seem a world away, but it’s only a short walk west from the Moulin Rouge to the entrance (west past the Moulin Rouge, then right at avenue Rachel).
The luminaries behind the American Prospect offer a new journal for the liberal libidinal imagination.
Students at less prestigious British universities will soon be able to take courses with such Oxford and Cambridge luminaries as physicist Steven Hawking, literary critic Terry Eagleton, and paleontologist Richard Dawkins, through a national system of video linkups.