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...“The Duchess of Alba”, “The Clothed Maja”, kings, courtesans and witches preside at Basel’s Fondation Beyeler in the once-in-a-generation Goya, a pageant of flamboyance balanced by inwardness....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...still best-known as a pioneer of the period instrument revival of the 1960s and 1970s, although since then he has explored later, 19th-century repertoire with the formation of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et...
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...It is as if Twitter, Facebook et al have conspired to return the novel to its most basic function: to provide a world that cannot stop picking things up and casting them aside with the gift of unputdownability...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Inspired by Mr Paulson et al, I have been hard at work compiling a rot analysis of business talk, looking at phrases that mean just the opposite of what they pretend to mean....
...Although the modern setting is entirely familiar, it still yields a few welcome surprises, particularly the opening encounter with the Eastcheap trio, which paints Pistol et al as Little Britain-esque reprobates...
...I have always liked the design of Apple’s products but have eschewed their notebooks because of the poor way the OS handles MS Windows et al....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...Michael V....
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