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...“To Vincent,” reads the entry in the museum’s catalogue, “it was an image of death, with humanity represented by the wheat being mowed.” Sweet dreams then!...
...Manicure, Marie Rosa. Set design, Eleonora Succi at Walter Schupfer. Photographer’s assistants, Henri De Carvalho, Carlos Esteves. Digital operator, Gabriel Kerboal. Retoucher, Fanfan Fallot....
...September 21 to December 1; further information here Nuit Blanche The city’s all-nighter dedicated to contemporary art, featuring a mass of installations around the city....
...Coote brought a compelling throaty quality to her vocal characterisation, and Barton was forceful as the officious Marie....
...Blanche McIntyre’s staging embraces the rolling, switching drive of the play, however, while her first-rate ensemble often double up, quietly reinforcing the patterns within the drama....
...They open with Jacques-Émile Blanche’s hypnotising, pale-faced portrait of the 21-year-old dandy with an orchid in his buttonhole....
...Its bestselling beer since it opened, however, is 33 Acres of Sunshine, a silky, smooth and sessionable French blanche spiced with orange peel, coriander and aniseed....
...For those of you who read French, take a look at this commentary by Marie Astier for the Reporterre website....
...It’s a subject close to the heart of French jeweller Chaumet, which helped to realise the show and whose identity is deeply rooted in the botanical world; Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of the maison,...
...It is used to poach, boil, stew, braise, steam and blanche. Reduced, or used to deglaze, it becomes a defining component of sauces, jus and glazes....
...Canada’s wheat crop would more than make up for the deficit in Ukraine this year, said Michael Scannell, deputy director-general at the commission’s agriculture department....
...Galerie Kugel only exhibits at Tefaf Maastricht, but for some years has mounted special showcase exhibitions — for a wider “creative carte blanche”, as Kugel puts it....
...To the rear of the building are two gardens designed by the landscape gardener Ann-Marie Powell. The Wildlife Garden features a large pond and planting to attract beneficial garden fauna....
...Marie Mutsuki Mockett, the half-Japanese, half-American author of American Harvest, does not think she is right just because she’s from California....
...But it has no judicial prerogative, Marie-Claude Najm, Lebanon's justice minister, said....
...Clearly, Marie was ready to blow the whistle, but when Eleonore informs her brother, his reaction isn’t what she expects....
...Jacques-Émile Blanche’s flattened, neurasthenic “Proust” stares out, fragile as the wilting lily at his buttonhole....
...Blanche has been sung mostly by sopranos, and the tessitura tests Leonard on top. As an actor, she’s imperious and impassive, without enough of the vulnerability that Blanche needs to evince....
...Over the course of human history, 6,000 different plants have been cultivated for food, but today more than half of our plant-derived energy intake comes from just three: wheat, rice and maize....
...“Today, not only have I lost a friend, but we have all lost an extraordinary creative mind to whom I gave carte blanche in the early 1980s to reinvent the brand,” said Alain Wertheimer, the Chanel chief...
...Ligne Blanche, 18 Galerie Véro-Dodat, 75001 (ligneblancheparis.com) My favourite websites are all very visual....
...His sons’ public excess was “sort of the Marie Antoinette . . . let them eat cake moment,” said Steven Heydemann, an academic who focuses on Syria....
...Hagerman, who will have no choice but to focus on the most important factors, sorting wheat from chaff?...
...With Véronique Gens powerful yet restrained as her reluctant successor, Madame Lidoine, and Sophie Koch as the pivotal Mère Marie, this is a house full of strong women with stories to tell....
...As in business, he has trodden his own path, printing 500,000 beer mats advocating a no-deal Brexit, and replacing Belgian wheat ale with British across Wetherspoons branches....
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