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...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Rebellion against the bourgeois “niceness” of his upbringing took the form of intellectualism....
...In fact, FT employees here in New York have been offered two workouts this month at Barry’s, the bourgeois boot camp business....
...“A pop star called Barry Ryan, who was married to Princess Miriam of Johor, lived here....
...A photograph of her lifelong friend turned husband, the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, rests on a table....
...They queue outside its shop in the trendy Parisian garment district of Sentier to get their hands on limited edition pieces, such as high-waisted jeans, floral sundresses and the “Barry” cardigan — which...
...After a Hollywood career making sci-fi blockbusters that hovered between silly and subversive (RoboCop, Starship Troopers), Verhoeven has made his most outrageous movie in the guise of a haute bourgeois...
...In 1926, the British critic Iris Barry, in her popular volume of essays, Let’s Go to the Pictures, noted that three-quarters of the audience were female and asserted, albeit wryly, that cinema “exists for...
...The most important idea of all, she argues, is that of “bourgeois equality”, the belief that everybody is entitled to better himself or herself....
...whitecube.com, 020 7930 5373, to September 28 … A Strong Affinity, Hannah Barry Gallery, London The affinity is between three very different sculptors whose interests include science and structures of...
...Jack met Mai Kirwan in 1922 when he was a student of engineering in Galway and she a trainee teacher from a solidly bourgeois Galway family....
...Barry Diller and Diane von Fürstenberg, the media and fashion couple, gave $16m and a section is named after them. The Friends now cover most of the garden’s annual running costs of $4m....
...Instead, textile art is associated with female artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and Tracey Emin, who adopted techniques and materials such as embroidery, sewing, latex and quilt-making as vehicles...
...… Crime by Barry Forshaw The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Sphere, RRP£20 We mustn’t hold against Robert Galbraith the fact that he’s really mega-selling JK Rowling....
...It was planned by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker along garden city principles – which called for the picturesque siting of houses and plenty of green space....
...Poking fun at bourgeois strictures around sex, the latter fits beautifully into a lineage of iconic bed sculptures including Rauschenberg’s 1955 Combine “Bed” and Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” (1998)....
...Vita Sackville-West would, perhaps, also have agreed with Mao that flowers on window ledges were bourgeois....
...Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth, by Barry Millington, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 This is the plain man’s Wagner – a balanced and beautifully illustrated compendium of life and works, written in...
...And Cook had just opened his sensational Soho cabaret club, the Establishment, which brought over the wild American comedian Lenny Bruce to enrage bourgeois opinion....
...He started his career in Charleroi in 1946 at that age of 20 in the family firm, Frere-Bourgeois, a nail merchant....
...Entitled “Intermission, Halloween Iraq IV”, it sold for $75,000 to François Pinault’s adviser Caroline Bourgeois on the Kurimanzutto stand....
...Barry Rowbotham, town twinning co-ordinator for Gravesham council in Kent, says that the practice “works best when local people are at its heart....
...She is sensitised to the nuances of female art-making: rigorous, witty, suggestive sculpture from Louise Bourgeois and Rebecca Warren, Emin’s own delicate, lilting oil pastel and pencil drawing, with its...
...Tel: +1 212-239 8600; www.barryfriedmanltd.com Urban muse Barcelona 1900 opens at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on Friday, charting the remarkable transformation of the city from a bourgeois provincial...
...There’s an old joke, attributed to the American broadcaster Barry Farber, that: “In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies too. But they die happy.”...
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