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...Like Giacometti’s skeletal personages, they evoke survivors of catastrophe, here slavery, but I thought too of all our journeys through life, each distinctive, fragile, worn down in different places, finding...
...Violet, now six and a regal, quixotic child, like a small personage from a Henry James novel, anxiously urges her parents to keep all the windows closed. Chess’s classes have moved online....
...Instead, we have no less a personage than Mitch McConnell describing Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the “axis of evil”. All four nations will blush at the flattery. janan.ganesh@ft.com...
...Painted within days in mid-July, “Sheaves of Wheat” enlarges the hay-figures of “Reaper” — dancing personages, nodding or bending as if posing for the painter, in a warm yellow tonality, casting lavender...
...As in Matrix, she largely eschews actual historical personages, although there is surely a suggestion of Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones in her reference to a “meaty-headed poet” and the friend who designs his...
...The four eminent personages gathered in this venerable supergroup are Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too $hort....
...This problem, while all-too obvious in the huge lobbying industry and unlimited campaign finance of the US, can be seen in the personage of Boris Johnson....
...In Brooks’s version of history, Jarret turns out to be the enslaved son of a talented African-American horse trainer (and real historical personage) Harry Lewis....
...Carnival vibes cross with mimicry of stiff baroque carvings: these elaborately dressed personages are literally weighed down by the trappings of colonial history....
...And I managed to speak to no less a personage than Professor Sir John Curtice, who’s been picking over the local government results from last month, comparing them to the Brexit vote and also how people...
...and, slots being precious, have seen only stills and a transcript from the Gill version, where the scholarly explanations are more straightforward, but the frisson/falsity of engagement with historical personages...
...No less a personage than the Fuhrer came to regret the postponement of hostilities. Pray that the film, and the Robert Harris novel it adapts, finds a conservative audience....
...This summer, Catholic bishops discussed withholding communion from no less a personage than the US president. The gesture was twice foolish....
...A less esteemed personage than the president might have been invited to make good on the claim. With eerie if not absolute consistency, the least vaccinated states vote Republican....
...“In no other country on Earth is my story even possible”, said Barack Obama, when he was that grand personage: a member of the Illinois senate....
...After “Babangida”, Nigeria’s leader at the time, “Maradona” is the first name of a public personage that I remember hearing....
...The result, like all the best novels, is that her paintings are inhabited by characters more authentic than any real personage yet a priori unavailable....
...A distinguished Melbourne literary critic, now deceased, was always quite sniffy about those brilliant Sydney personages: Clive James, Germaine Greer and the art critic Robert Hughes....
...Not once in this 100-minute show do we encounter any personage other than Gadsby herself who rises above the level of caricature....
...The whole totem-inspired collection – The Personages – would do nicely. She created these figure-like totems to be her friends when she was living away and lonely. They’re beautiful....
...And I'm also innocent of all the accusation that came around these charges that are all biassed, taken out of context, twisted in a way to paint a personage of greed and the personage of dictatorship....
...Full of ponderous phrases such as “as it were” and “so to speak”, and metatextual references like “After I had written the phrase essence of personages just now . . . ”, it’s a meanderingly precise, lugubriously...
...These days audiences are used to experiencing fully staged productions of such pieces — an impossible notion in Handel’s day due to a legal ban on the representation of Biblical personages on the English...
...A bare stage, save for six pale canvas panels, waits in darkness and silence, a strange personage prowling the emptiness until the first percussive sounds bring forth the dancers, clad in simple contemporary...
...They have to stand all the time — Pope-Hennessy is told by Miss von Hanno, a lady-in-waiting — because “it didn’t embarrass people when the personage moved away”....
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