Although Balzac was nearly always in debt, I was surprised by some rather grand personal items on display.
You perhaps have an idea of what to expect: grand, decorative items of little practical use intended to trumpet the wealth, artistic sophistication and general cultural kudos of the gift-giving country.
The 10 players, students led by the composer Stephen Scott, stand around, and sometimes under, a concert grand, armed with items of all kinds — nylon fishing line, piano hammers, guitar picks, strips of paper, rolls of plumber's tape — and reach into the instrument to draw sounds from its strings.
"The Great Ferraris of Sergio Pininfarina" fills three halls with concept cars, race cars, grand tourers and items from Pininfarina's private collection, including paintings, drawings and even a four-decade-old wooden styling buck used in the process of crafting a body in metal.
The billowing chalk downland of Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters are popular spots for walkers so it's unlikely you'll have them to yourself, but this is a sociable (as well as energetic) coast walk, full of grand views and items of interest.
And I have done it within a budget where there are no line items for grand final wishes.
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Ms. Grand, who selected the items shown, said it was merely intended to be an opportunity for customers to see the runway pieces up close and to examine the craftsmanship that cannot be seen in pictures.
Read created the t-shirts as a joke, selling a grand total of three items before Zazzle shut down his store after citing "infringement claims".
This large front-office cadre managed to produce a grand total of 15 items during the first six months of Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard's tenure less than one item per front office employee.
