Hints and tips:
...“Because we’re influenced by things we don’t like we felt we could do better.”...
...“We didn’t want to change anything until we really understood the house,” Martin recalls....
...“I didn’t apologise and I don’t regret anything. He did something very damaging.”...
...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...(There is an apocryphal tale that Marie Antoinette, after being presented with a silk rose, fainted at the sight of it.)...
...A Conservative campaign saying it is “mission accomplished” on this front will make Sunak look like Marie Antoinette and if the Tory campaign sounds anything like that, it will be a disaster....
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...That it should all climax not with a guillotine but a murder inquiry doesn’t seem like progress, on any count....
...I wasn’t always a ribbon fetishist, or at least not openly....
...Larraín seemingly wants to remind us that Pinochetism isn’t quite dead yet....
...It wasn’t acceptable as it is now.”...
...As Cole points out, a “country life theme ran through the 18th century”, most notably expressed by Marie Antoinette....
...Don’t share it with your spouse or use it for family purposes, such as redeeming the mortgage on the family home, paying family debts or significantly improving the house....
...“I don’t have to look like the cast,” she says. “I mean, if the movie has aliens in it, I don’t look like aliens. You know? It’s like, Can I do some sci fi, please?”...
...One of the first broadsides against private equity was Steven Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar’s Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows....
...For example, right at the beginning of the film, we see Marie Antoinette being guillotined that, and Napoleon wasn’t there. He was in the film, but that doesn’t matter at all....
...Asked for more details, he said: “I just agreed to it; I don’t have a fully formed strategy.”...
...“I loved ’80s wedding cakes and Marie Antoinette. It has a certain sense of luxury to it,” she says, not pausing in conversation or cake-decorating....
...We parade meticulously edited images of ourselves past those little windows not to examine who we are, but precisely so we don’t have to. To March 3 2024, frick.org...
...moodboards behind each Coppola film: here is the painting by John Kacere that inspired the shot of Scarlett Johansson in sheer knickers in Lost in Translation, a Guy Bourdin image that informed a frame in Marie Antoinette...
...because of a pervading belief that fashion — and in particular silhouette — didn’t evolve that rapidly prior to the 20th century....
...There appears to be a prevailing belief that during lockdown Boris Johnson morphed into a 21st century Marie Antoinette, scoffing cake and guzzling wine, while saying, “Let them go to parties” — only to...
...The skills of figures with great impact on follicular fashion are also on display, including Léonard Autier, a favoured hairdresser of Marie Antoinette, alongside creations from fashion powerhouses such...
...No, it almost certainly isn’t modelled on Marie Antoinette’s breast. Even if it were, why sully such a celebratory drink with someone on history’s losing side?...
...Lollipops do but toffee apples don’t. The VAT rate on Twiglets is zero but on savoury popcorn it’s 20 per cent....
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