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...Designer Charles Jeffrey also sees the knitted tank as being uniquely retro. He associates them with the knitting patterns one finds in charity shops – and with his grandmother....
...In his recent pandemic memoir, What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year, the author and critic Charles Finch recalled two things about his former classmate, known then as “D”: he did an uncanny impression...
...In the context of Los Angeles, architectural theorist Charles Jencks used the term “heteropolis”. It is an environment devoted to the “love of difference”....
...Ballard was more nearly right....
...I am a huge fan of hers,” said Marjorie Peerce, an attorney at Ballard Spahr....
...Look for Charles Jencks’ Cells of Life landform work, or Anya Gallaccio’s astonishing and magical underground grotto with walls made of amethyst....
...Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas (1966) and Charles Moore’s You Have to Pay for the Public Life (1965) looked to the casino, the modern vernacular streetscape and Disneyland...
...It became a kind of cult structure and the author JG Ballard (who lived nearby in Shepperton) often described it as his favourite building....
...Charles chats as if the words were his own thoughts. Two TV screens pinned to the rafters are not so delightful....
...Of all London novelists, Charles Dickens probably got closest to the Joycean vision of novel-as-map....
...They sound great and work as one, and at times drummer Jeff Ballard, whose credits include Ray Charles and Brad Mehldau, had to shout to be heard....
...We learn a bit about Ballard (referred to pseudonymously as “Jack Allard”) but not much we didn’t already know from Ballard’s own autobiographical works....
...A pragmatist too, she worked with a wide range of organisations and maritime explorers, including Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the Titanic....
...The director, Charles Randolph-Wright, who has worked in television and movies but had no experience of putting together a Broadway musical, won Gordy over by saying the Motown show would be “his life’s...
...The first in a trilogy whose three parts are all being published this year, VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep,...
...It feeds the beast,” says Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for the ‘Yes on Prop 38’ campaign....
...In addition to Burroughs, Franz Kafka, JG Ballard and Jorge Luis Borges figure strongly, almost overshadowing Nelson’s art world influences, who include Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg, and the American...
...Saxophonist Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier on bass and drummer Jeff Ballard were the afternoon’s highlight – they will be performing at London’s Kings Place on Friday, as part of the Partager festival....
...Authors such as Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, JG Ballard, Italo Calvino and Paul Auster have turned the city into a character, while we, as readers, have become used to the idea of the influence of the city...
...Islands are schools of individuality, perhaps of idiosyncrasy, which is something to be proud of; they produce specimens as quirky as the finches and tortoises that amazed Charles Darwin when he visited...
...Charles Percy Snow, later to be Lord Snow, was then 53. As a young man he had worked as a research chemist....
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