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...Meanwhile, we also take in such varied delights as Swedish-style Norwich City Hall, designed by CH James and S Rowland Pierce; the Viennese whirl of Quarry Hill flats in Leeds (architect RAH Livett); Charles...
...First, there’s awe, then a lot of squinting. After that, any spot of colour is just way up there, somewhere....
...Her coping mechanism was to escape into literature, a passion she passed on to her daughter, who devoured the Chinese translations of Simone de Beauvoir, Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway....
...The news last week of a brewing takeover battle for US Steel was greeted with less awe....
...Unlike past kings and consorts, Charles and Camilla will find it difficult to justify commissioning grand new regalia. Their precious, ancient stones no longer dazzle or awe us into submission either....
...His ability to seize rivals’ assets is itself considered an awe-inspiring display of political power....
...Then there are the subtle stained glass in pink pastel tones by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the UK or the elaborate designs of Louis Majorelle in France....
...The furniture here, beautifully ornamented with Islamic motifs, is the work of Turquoise Mountain, an NGO founded by King Charles III to encourage the revival of traditional crafts in Afghanistan....
...Charles is not admired like his mother, and has difficulty keeping his opinions to himself....
...There were the executioners’ “trade signs” of dubious provenance competing for attention with a fine silk shirt that Charles I possibly wore to the scaffold....
...first day of spring as measured by a day’s length equalling that of the night and the Earth’s poles being equidistant from the Sun 20th anniversary of US missiles striking Baghdad, launching the Shock and Awe...
...That meadow was planted where the Queen could look down at it from the palace,” adds Rittson-Thomas, who is famous for his portraits of the Queen and speaks with awe about her “piercing clear blue eyes....
...This very reality compounds our sense of awe when the Christmas tree quintuples in size and the fireplace becomes a blazing portal for a horde of murderous rodents....
...Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus at LSE: Slightly better....
...It has long drawn curious visitors, including Charles Darwin, who in 1831 observed that the large boulders scattered in the valley contained marine seashells....
...“I think it’s a shambles and a disgrace,” said one backbencher Charles Walker. “I’m livid.”...
...Citterio’s aesthetic, though thoroughly steeped in the modern Italian tradition, has a profound respect for the work of US designers Charles and Ray Eames....
...They depict Uncle Charles “Chicka” Madden and his granddaughter Lille Madden, a climate youth activist....
...gems such as a 1937 copy of Gone With the Wind inscribed by Vivien Leigh to a friend before she was cast as Scarlett O’Hara in the film, and A Tale of Two Cities with an inscription to George Eliot by Charles...
...Charles Duncan, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says institutional investors are interested, but so far only “very casually”....
...Then again, if the palace is — as Prince Charles so charmingly calls it — “the flat above the shop”, it is really the handing-down of the family firm....
...The Lion House sticks to his home turf but returns to the 16th century, at the zenith of Ottoman power, when a fast-expanding Muslim empire struck awe and terror into every Christian king....
...Crisp became close friends with the critic Mary Clarke when the publishers Adam and Charles Black brought them together to co-write Ballet: An Illustrated History (1973)....
...Came with her shock and awe “mini” Budget, which was very much focused on trying to deal with the growth issue but obviously creates a whole other set of problems....
...Charles Sheeler’s 1927 ode to Ford’s River Rouge factory quivers with Olympian power....
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