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...“I get the tradition of Alfred Escher,” said one person involved in UBS’s deliberations....
...I could not have imagined in such a short period of time that two very important ministers would disappear and without any information,” said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of...
...“Among 20th-century American paintings, I do not know . . . a more unforgettable animal picture than Hirshfield’s ‘Tiger’,” announced MoMA’s founding director Alfred Barr in 1942....
...The opening show features work by, among others, Lubna Chowdhary, Rohini Devasher, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Annie Morris, Manu Parekh and Dayanita Singh, as well as Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol...
...Alfred Escher, the 19th century industrialist, he's looking to modernise Switzerland. He sets up his own bank we know today as Credit Suisse....
...In TS Eliot’s 1915 poem “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” the narrator wonders, “Do I dare to eat a peach?”, the suggestion being that its flesh might be too juicily sensuous to eat in public....
...That’s what Morris superbly provides....
...It sets the scene beautifully in the 17th-century Parisian townhouse shared by Alfred van Lelyveld and Olivier Trebosc, designed by French architect Jacques Garcia....
...There are gentle layers of planting that barely leave an imprint yet dial up the atmosphere: white “Madame Alfred Carrière” roses tumble out of mellow stone; cascades of white Wisteria floribunda alba hang...
...“Demand for higher education, now more than ever . . . is far in excess of capacity,” says Alfred Morris, a former interim vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, who now runs a company which...
...Another British shoe designer, Olivia Morris, who had her own label in the 2000s and until last year was design director at Lulu Guinness, is moving into women’s slippers with a new brand, Olivia Morris...
...The WGAW’s criticisms in some ways evoke the story of MCA, which enjoyed dominion over Hollywood in the days of Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe....
...European carmaking also saw consolidation, leading to the emergence of Germany’s Daimler-Benz and the UK’s Austin and Morris among others....
...Horace Pippin, an African-American artist who didn’t go to art school, exhibited in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art and was widely collected and championed (notably by MoMA’s director Alfred H Barr) until...
...Mobile-free meetings can also be problematic, says Ms Morris. “People have Apple watches so they sneak a look.” Culture is important, she adds....
...It was American interest — the first director of MoMA, Alfred Barr, bought a water lily painting for the museum in 1955 — that made a global superstar of late Monet....
...Alfred Perry lights up when he describes how he landed in Raleigh in October 2014 as a 19-year-old from the Ohio Rust Belt with a high school diploma and big plans to take advantage of a booming local economy...
...The story that we grew up with, that Alfred Barr [New York MoMA’s first director] established, that the museum and market place grew around — it’s an important reference point, but it’s no longer all-encompassing...
...This is an edited extract from ‘Peacock & Vine: Fortuny & Morris in life and at work’, by A S Byatt, published by Chatto & Windus (UK) on July 7 and Alfred Knopf (US) on August 2 Photographs: FCMV/Fortuny...
...The exhibition includes a royal album of such playful tableaux vivants — never shown in public in the UK — created by the four daughters of Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria’s second son....
...But Victorian Britain lacked photographic artists of the stature of Nadar or Eugene Atget in Paris or Alfred Steiglitz in New York, who early on perceived that photography must forge its own path to modernity...
...This intoxicating apparition is the work of Cornelia Parker, who has channelled her fellow Briton Alfred Hitchcock and at the same time tapped into a vein of American mystery....
...They developed a remarkable maintenance culture, keeping Morris Minors on the road, steam locomotives on the rail tracks, ageing Viscounts and Dakotas in the air....
...Dallas Cowboys running back Alfred Morris has made headlines in recent years not only for his football skills but being extremely careful with his money, driving an old Mazda instead of a shiny sports car...
...The Haus des Volkes was built in 1927 by Bauhaus architect Alfred Arndt for a philanthropist who had chosen to endow this remote slate-mining community with a cathedral-sized community centre....
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