In America more than two centuries ago, believers in God elected to live under the laws of man.
David Thomson Film critic Long before the end, Ingmar Bergman elected to live on a small island off the coast of Sweden.
Photograph: Lennart Nilsson/AFP Long before the end, Ingmar Bergman elected to live on a small island off the coast of Sweden.
Rarely seen in public since at least the 1960s, Huguette Clark had elected to live since 1991 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan rather than at her grand homes in Manhattan, Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn.
"In a way, it's more beautiful to want to be together, to want a man in your life, because you elect to live like that rather than because you have to".
Even before he moved to Rossinière, he elected to live in preposterously grand, often dilapidated old houses, including the Villa Diodati, near Geneva, at one time the home of Byron, to whom Balthus absurdly claimed to be related.
The fact that Barney has the run of the White House amuses Mrs. Whitman's husband, John, who recognizes that as a relatively liberal Republican, Mrs. Whitman is unlikely to be elected to live there herself.
Henry de Montebello, Philippe's youngest brother, told me that although Philippe was the only one of them who married an American wife and elected to live in the United States, he has always been the "Frenchest" of the four, and Philippe talks of going back to live in France when he does retire.
Pope Francis has elected to live elsewhere, in a relatively austere hotel suite at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta residence – it's unclear what the TV situation is over there, but my gut is that, if there is one, it's far from state of the art.
