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...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...Pimm’s isn’t Pimm’s, in the truest sense, without a scattering of borage – that starry-blue, cucumber-scented flower that Charles Dickens declared, “[made] a world of difference” to his meticulously crafted...
...David Lewis’s spacious home just outside of central London are hung with portraits by Van Dyck and Ferdinand Bol, prints by Munch, an Impressionist painting by Pissarro, drawings by the Art Nouveau artist Aubrey...
...But one of the best films of the festival was the gentlest, a wonderful low-fi British comedy called Brian and Charles....
...No one embodied its headlong growth like Chesapeake Energy’s Aubrey McClendon, a persuasive industry advocate who built up the largest acreage position in the country....
...A decade on from the beheading of Charles Stuart, the paralysis at the heart of government seemed total....
...Earlier, I spent 15 minutes observing actor Aubrey Plaza eating cornflakes, twisting her hair and whispering....
...“Right now we are seeing a failed market . . . an inefficient land market filled with perverse incentives,” says Mr Aubrey. This is the third part of a series about UK infrastructure....
...Even John Aubrey, when he came to write a “Brief Life” of Ogilby, was stumped....
...In “Salome”, illustrator Aubrey Beardsley depicts the face of Wilde alongside a languid Mercury, a veiled reference to male prostitutes who also worked as telegraph boys....
...Charles Mills, head of planning at the consultancy Daniel Watney, said there was a “compelling case” for local authorities to return to housebuilding, despite current low levels of building by councils....
...He attended Oxford as a gentleman-commoner during the 1640s at the height of the English civil war, when the university was the headquarters of Charles I and besieged by the Commonwealth forces....
...Ruth Scurr, similarly, wrought a quiet revolution in historical biography with John Aubrey: My Own Life, in which the 17th-century antiquary’s own writings are used to build a faux-diary that captures a...
...antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...He remembered seeing it filled with the courtiers and soldiers who followed Charles I to Oxford after the Battle of Edgehill....
...Even as an enthusiast for imperial history, I confess I was unfamiliar with him: a consequence of my inability to appreciate the Jack Aubrey novels of Patrick O’Brian, I suppose....
...John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 An experimental “act of scholarly imagination” brings to life the 17th-century antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...By the age of 12, Kenneth Clark had begun acquiring Hokusai prints, and had sat twice for his portrait: to John Lavery, for a Little Lord Fauntleroy likeness in frothy white, and to Charles Sims, who posed...
...for a new biography of this great artist, American by birth but for most of his life a European, who left behind such a range of beautiful artworks and who was also, in the judgment of the poet Algernon Charles...
...In fact, Charles Holme was a keen student of the arts, and the founder of the magazine The Studio which launched with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and preceded that hardy perennial, Country Life....
...The result is an internal rate of return of 25 per cent, says Charles Weston of brokers Numis, with a fair number of companies being bought up or listed....
...They replace Richard Davidson, Kathleen Eisbrenner, Frank Keating and Don Nickles, who resigned, and Charles Maxwell, who retired at the company’s annual meeting this month....
...Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake’s co-founder and chief executive, borrowed the money to invest in a longstanding and disclosed programme under which he can take a 2.5 per cent stake in wells drilled by the...
...Apart from Mr Hargis, Mr Davidson and Charles Maxwell, an energy analyst who has reached retirement age, it is not yet known which other directors will leave....
...Consider Chesapeake Energy, the US shale gas producer, which produced a great example of corporate excess when it paid chief executive Aubrey McClendon $12m for his map collection....
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