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  • March 9, 2009

    Designers go a long way with a little restraint

    ...and Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue. Later, in a dark tent in the Tuileries, blonde French finance minister Christine Lagarde is introduced to blonde Hollywood film star Charlize Theron by Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano before his show...pink blouse, a floor-length evening gown, and all looks in between. It was beautiful and practical and not remotely boring, though as an idea also very safe: Elbaz has been here before, done that, and got the standing ovation. Put another...
  • March 8, 2009

    Designers go a long way with a little restraint

    ...and Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue. Later, in a dark tent in the Tuileries, blonde French finance minister Christine Lagarde is introduced to blonde Hollywood film star Charlize Theron by Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano before his show...pink blouse, a floor-length evening gown, and all looks in between. It was beautiful and practical and not remotely boring, though as an idea also very safe: Elbaz has been here before, done that, and got the standing ovation. Put another... By Vanessa Friedman
  • March 26, 2007

    An outcast's eye on inner life

    ...directed. Not that he is cosying up to the theatrical establishment. In a Guardian article last week he blasted theatres for boring audiences with plays that subordinate story to the analysis of ideas. What they should be offering, he wrote, is the...treatment - their lives become manageable." Neilson is aware of the difficulty inherent in this task. He points out that Christine Entwisle, the actress playing Lisa, has described the play as being about "sensation versus numbness". "Its difficult... By Chris Wilkinson
  • March 25, 2007

    An outcast’s eye on inner life

    ...directed. Not that he is cosying up to the theatrical establishment. In a Guardian article last week he blasted theatres for boring audiences with plays that subordinate story to the analysis of ideas. What they should be offering, he wrote, is the...treatment – their lives become manageable.” Neilson is aware of the difficulty inherent in this task. He points out that Christine Entwisle, the actress playing Lisa, has described the play as being about “sensation versus numbness”. “Its... By Chris Wilkinson
  • September 8, 2006

    Extra ordinary

    ...domestic perfection of Amanda, accused by her husband of being boring, and who will not let her son touch the glass door leading...confrontation with a woman in a gigantic car; and through Christine’s acquisition of another purple top in which to throw...of convention, and asks, in the voice of a half-drunk Christine, a very important question: “If you accepted things... By Diana Evans
  • April 1, 2007

    L’Heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi, Royal Opera House, London

    ...clockmaker’s wife (Concepcion) who needs to feel the strength of a man’s body. She doesn’t get it from her boring husband (Torquemada). She doesn’t fancy the randy mayor, and her poetry-spinning lover is impotent. Just as frustration...baffling mechanism that is woman” tickles our imagination as much as the phallic symbolism of the clock’s pendulum. Christine Rice’s Concepcion is not flattered by her starchy Spanish costume (Nicky Gillibrand). She also misses the saucy insouciance... By Andrew Clark
  • April 2, 2007

    L'Heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi

    ...about a clockmaker's wife (Concepcion) who needs to feel the strength of a man's body. She doesn't get it from her boring husband (Torquemada). She doesn't fancy the randy mayor, and her poetry-spinning lover is impotent. Just as frustration...baffling mechanism that is woman" tickles our imagination as much as the phallic symbolism of the clock's pendulum. Christine Rice's Concepcion is not flattered by her starchy Spanish costume (Nicky Gillibrand). She also misses the saucy insouciance... By ANDREW CLARK
  • December 17, 2005

    'I've spent my life being rude to people'

    ...and the whole world fell apart." His drawings, such as a cover of Harold Macmillan sitting naked on a chair à la Christine Keeler, caused a stir. The Daily Mail wooed him with a massive salary and an E-Type Jaguar. "Then," he says, they...dripping fangs but I think it's more powerful these days to make them into figures of fun." But, he adds, "it's boring drawing politicians over and over again. That's why I spend only a small proportion of my time doing it." In terms... By Lottie Moggach
  • October 1, 2005

    It's the party, stupid

    ...less. The Tories are sorry now. Opposing everything is a boring position for intelligent people to take, and particularly...well as for Alan B'stard, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Hamilton, Christine Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, Jeffrey Archer, Iain Duncan Smith... By Simon Kuper
  • September 30, 2005

    It’s the party, stupid

    ...even less. The Tories are sorry now. Opposing everything is a boring position for intelligent people to take, and particularly silly now that both...as for Alan B’stard, Cecil Parkinson, Neil Hamilton, Christine Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, Jeffrey Archer, Iain Duncan Smith... By Simon Kuper
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