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...It was also in the castle of Lucera that Frederick experimented with camel breeding. For half a century, Lucera was a functioning Islamic city....
...Instead, pathetically, she was reduced to taking her students to Calais to look at English-style medieval castles while peering across the Channel through binoculars at the White Cliffs of Dover....
...me in 2018, since when their glorious Garnachas have risen to Spanish royalty, alongside Vega Sicilia et al....
...These days, there’s little trace of Mirbat’s old port and traditional mud houses, but the castle still presides above the new town — a symbolic juxtaposition of a not-so-distant past and an urgent present...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Kasbahs are mini castles, fortified houses built of ochre clay designed to keep goods and citizens in and thieves out....
...The idea of dreams and castles and private jets. But I hate the word lifestyle; it’s an old word....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...figures including Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor and Louise Brooks – each representing a facet of the complex social construct Als calls the “white girl”....
...Pulling out of town, we drew up at a petrol station (complete with mosque) in the bone-white emptiness....
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Timbuktu, which is exactly a day’s ride on a camel from the edge of the Sahara. …………………………………………………………….. Jason Wu , fashion designer Where are you spending the summer?...
...Indian town....
...But Al Tarfa’s main attraction is the ease with which one can get into the sands. The nearby Dakhla Dune Park can be reached on horse or camel-back, or by car....
...The town has expanded down the mountainside over the years, spreading out from the central core in a giant belch of modern white houses. Happily, this has not spoiled the historical heart....
...“Gentleman” is an apt description of the courteous man who insists on collecting me from the railway station in the Buckinghamshire market town of Amersham....
...Launched in 1955 with Picasso, Matisse et al as a symbol of cultural revival in war-ruined Germany, it began as the nation’s conscience, then developedover the years into the conscience of Euro-America....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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