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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
In London, the cultural draw of the season has been the Titian exhibition at the National Gallery. The curators have gathered paintings that have not hung together for more than four hundred years, and the galleries are staying open four evenings a week to accommodate the throng. Visitors who pause before "The Death of Actaeon,"in which a tumbling figure, half man, half deer, is savaged by pursuing hounds, could be forgiven for murmuring under their breath, "There goes Tony.”
The Prime Minister has been more besieged of late than at any time since he took office, in 1997. Actaeon got it in the neck because he caught sight of Diana enjoying a dip. There is no official record of Blair's...
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