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...Afire is unusual in being a rare male-centred film by a director more famous for films about women — notably the cycle of dramas including Yella, Barbara and Phoenix, which made an international name of...
...When John Smith calls us from London, I don’t know and don’t ask if he’s arriving with Barbara or with Brandon.” So said Leon Avigad, who co-founded Brown Hotels with his husband Nitzan Perry in 2010....
...Local officials “would not dare inconvenience the industrialists who live in San Pedro,” said Bárbara González, a political commentator in the city....
...“If we’re going to keep to 1.5C, that may be difficult now,” said Leon Hermanson, a Met Office researcher who led the report....
...Epstein’s wealth had long been shrouded in mystery, with new details about his links to billionaires such as Les Wexner and Leon Black coming to light in recent weeks following his arrest....
...Curated by Cecilia Alemani, who directs the art programme for New York’s High Line, the project showcases 18 Argentine and international artists — the latter include Maurizio Cattelan and Barbara Kruger...
...The Trick to Time, by Kit de Waal, Viking, RRP£12.99 A woman reflects on a 1970s love affair in the follow-up to My Name is Leon....
...And Barbara Hepworth’s dreamy “Seated Girl” (1949, pictured) fetched £170,000 (£206,500 with fees), against an estimate of just £30,000-£40,000....
...saatchigallery.com, 020 7811 3070, Wednesday to September 6 … Leon Underwood: Figure and Rhythm, Pallant House, Chichester When Leon Underwood won the Prix de Rome in 1920, he went to Iceland instead...
...Female artists are innovative here: Barbara Hepworth’s self-portrait as a bronze hand; Francesca Woodman’s as a sinuous cropped nude, slippery as an eel; Sarah Lucas’s profile delineated in cigarette butts...
...A poll conducted at the time of her declaration gives her just 2 per cent of the Republican vote November 2010 Loses California senate race to incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer 2009 Secures Republican...
...AC roh.org.uk, 020 7304 4000 … Barbara Hannigan, June 18, Symphony Hall, Birmingham It’s worth travelling far to hear Barbara Hannigan....
...On the other is Barbara Hepworth’s alabaster “Figure” of 1933: “Hepworth’s answer to a Cycladic Venus – a piece made to be felt,” declares the tousle-haired and infectiously enthusiastic Katz, running his...
...Over the course of four decades in politics, Leon Panetta has enjoyed the model Washington career....
...Richard Louis Garbe’s ivory/wood mermaid reliefs are pure art nouveau; Leon Underwood’s carrara marble “Nucleus” has cubist angularity; the simplified lines and elemental quality of John Skeaping’s Cornish...
...How I wish Tate would sometime turn its spotlight on greater, more personally expressive artists of the same epoch: Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn, say, or Leon Kossoff, unshown at Tate for nearly two decades...
...The prize was won by Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a collector who had never before bought an Old Master drawing. Will another new trophy hunter have set their sights on this second Raphael?...
...The Chatsworth selection spans a century: from Matthew Smith’s 1915 “Connie Martin” (“fauvish”) to Leon Kossoff’s 1972 “Portrait of Father” (“I love that painting!”)...
...Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Sen....
...As a matter of fact, I would say that if Barbara Tuckman was alive today, and the great book she wrote, March of Folly about four historical wars, which she referred to as follies, if she was alive today...
...This is a fast-paced historical tale that’s almost in the league of the great Leon Garfield. Suzi Feay BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS How Will You Measure Your Life?...
...The streets of San Francisco – and those of Santa Barbara – were full of homeless people pushing shopping trolleys full of dirty rags and food painstakingly picked out of rubbish bins....
...The US author Barbara Kingsolver is the winner of this year’s Orange prize for fiction for her sixth novel, The Lacuna....
...Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel since Prodigal Summer, published in 2000, is broad in scope and ambition....
...“Initially I was told that, if I bought the Rembrandt, I could pay 10 per cent immediately and the rest over six months; then the lawyers for the vendor [Johnson & Johnson heiress Barbara Piasecka Johnson...
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