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...“Charles and Ray would often say toys are preludes to serious ideas.”...
...We wend towards an eatery on Charles Street, the main drag in the historic neighbourhood of Beacon Hill....
...As part of last month’s deal, Brookfield has taken a minority stake in Primary Wave, which owns the songwriting catalogues of musicians such as Stevie Nicks, James Brown and Ray Charles....
...The Duchess of Devonshire was the youngest of the Mitford sisters, high-society siblings including Nancy Mitford, author of Love in a Cold Climate....
...and Ray Eames in 1941....
...Many of the pieces are by Charles and Ray Eames and also by the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, who broke the mould of what furniture was supposed to look like....
...I can’t recall the first time I saw the late 19th-century painting “Shadows” by American artist Charles Courtney Curran....
...I have always been drawn to the regal women striding forward in “Walking”, the 1958 painting by the modernist artist Charles Henry Alston, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance....
...Politics collide with passion in a tale of love in a fraught climate....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...He also created larger-than-life characters that big-name actors love to sink their teeth into. Oliver Reed’s Bill Sikes, Alastair Sim’s Scrooge — these are performances for the ages....
...Finding love again, she says, is analogous to friendship. “They don’t cancel each other out,” she says. What does she think underscores the longevity and happiness she has found in love?...
...From €169, 25hours-hotel.com At home in LA with the Eameses It feels fitting that the house Charles and Ray Eames built for themselves in 1949 is in Pacific Palisades, just above Rustic Canyon – today...
...Four years earlier, The Genius of Ray Charles was released by another blind maestro....
...An infectious hip-swinger about the love of lucre, at once brazen and innocent, its genesis lay in a pounding Ray Charles-style piano vamp that Gordy heard him playing one day. “What’s that?”...
...“I feel so lucky because my partner is in a band that I love. I love every single song they play. And the artists he writes with at the house – they all play my kind of music,” she fangirls....
...The versions found in the books of Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm are often cruel, gruesome little parables, with a Disneyfied “happily ever after” far from guaranteed....
...His brains, drive and love of 19th-century literature — he was said to hire people purely on the back of a shared love for Anthony Trollope, TS Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Mann — could have helped...
...Nourry prefers to be photographed with objects in front of her face, and will not be drawn on the subject of her partner, the street artist JR....
...The generally good-quality sale had eight works withdrawn, accounting for up to £12mn and including Damien Hirst’s “I love you more than words can say” (1999, est £300,000-£500,000)....
...His breakthrough comedy, This House, focused on the contortions of a hung parliament; Labour of Love charted divisions in the left; The Vote unfolded in a polling station; Ink explored the impact of popular...
...Her love of reading led to an English literature degree at Brunel University London. But her love of music took over after graduation. Stormzy, a fellow south Londoner, was a catalyst....
...So the next trip will have to be where we include The 400 Blows and Charles Laughton’s Hunchback of Notre-Dame; La Jetée and Le Samouraï; Cléo from 5 to 7 and, yes, Ratatouille....
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