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...The epochal Great Marlborough Street shop, a heritage listed building, was constructed in 1924 using the timbers of two ancient three-decker battleships....
...The double-decker display of decked-out duds looks fantastic — the mood is giddiness, ebullience, which is very camp, without much depth of thought, which is also camp....
...“It will be mammoth but very slender, just over a metre at the base but the top is wider than a double decker bus. The tetrahedron shapes get 10 per cent bigger as you go up....
...Unlike her primary predecessors in Willy Decker’s controversial production – Anna Netrebko in Salzburg (2005) and Marina Poplavskaya here (2010) – the German soprano hardly looked consumptive in the famous...
...Anna Netrebko is better seen in the DVD of Willy Decker’s spare, modernist 2005 Salzburg staging than heard on its CD soundtrack....
...The Goldfinch introduces us to Theo Decker, a modern-day Dickensian hero, and his suitably picaresque adventures in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam....
...Although they did what they could, this became Decker’s show virtually by default....
...Livia Firth, wife of Colin Firth, wore a pair of earrings and a ring made by Cred with Fairtrade and Fairmined gold designed by Anna Loucah....
...Anna Fifield is the FT’s Middle East correspondent ………………………………………. www.damascusegaterestaurant.com Airport Road, Damascus Telephone +963-1-547-5500...
...Unluckily, its replacement in 2010 – a high-concept version created by Willy Decker for Anna Netrebko three years ago in Salzburg – promises a new set of distortions....
...… At the Met in 2010, Decker’s ultrastylised La Traviata, borrowed from Salzburg, will serve as a vehicle for Gelb’s favoured glamourpuss, Anna Netrebko....
...At first sight a lot is the same: signs are still in English as well as Chinese, there are double-decker buses, and names of places that speak of Hong Kong’s colonial past....
...The pivot around which everything revolves is Marie McLaughlin’s Anna, a Statue of Libido radiating glamour....
...We had a school text book with a picture of a double-decker bus going over Tower Bridge. To me, it was just fiction. I remember saying goodbye to a visiting Scottish friend at the airport....
...Anna Šteflová, Czech Republic I am writing these lines to express my deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of victims of last week’s atrocities....
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