Hints and tips:
...His urbanism was shaped by the monumentality of Niemeyer with the artful landscape planning of Roberto Burle Marx....
...Over a dinner table excessively stacked with dishes, this portly man took out his iPhone and read out the start of Karl Marx’s Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: “At a certain stage of development...
...Further reading— Walkers’ Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: Crunch time— HMRC vs action figures: the face off *We’re aware this is a little like calling Karl Marx a Marxist....
...I’d go further: clothes and other matters of taste are a relatively benign way to signal and celebrate status, much to be preferred to snobbery based on, say, political party or ancestry....
...I’d have to question their mental stability.”...
...“No less than Karl Marx said advertising was a maggot of capitalism. In other words, advertising people, we’re all maggots.”...
...Each month, they are invited to suggest films they’d like to see....
...that Surrealism achieved its disquieting icons: Salvador Dalí’s “Lobster Telephone” (1938), Luis Buñuel’s sliced eyeball in “Un chien andalou” (1929), Man Ray’s nude as a musical instrument “Le Violon d’...
...And in the long run, it’s not one of these kind of cyclical changes that you’d associate with early/mid/late cycle, is it?...
...It is not too much of a stretch to see Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, as a modern Marx....
...Imagine Studio 54 reconceptualised by Proust with footnotes by Marx and you get a sense of an installation that is at once discotheque, morning-after party, Communist HQ and Catholic church....
...I’d forgotten the conceptual artist Jeremy Deller’s gift for capturing the zeitgeist of art and life in the Anthropocene....
...There are subtle little gags scattered between the more obvious ones — the oligarch sprouts a Marx beard — but overall the satire is scattershot....
...As Groucho Marx is often attributed with saying. “Why should I care about future generations. What have they ever done for me?”...
...“To be clear, I’d rather have the trolls . . .” The maître d’ has come to take our order. Ypi orders a dizzying array of fish courses and a bottle of crisp white Albanian wine....
...I’ve eaten all of the main course and he asks if I’d like mango and coffee. We move to the kitchen, where he brews a Kenyan roast in an Italian stove-top coffee-maker....
...Then you have the problem that you don’t want R&D exclusively conducted by governments because of bureaucracy....
...Born in Heilbronn, Germany in 1825, he trained as a carpenter and his work took him across the country, where he encountered Karl Marx who, along with Friedrich Engels, became a friend and longtime correspondent...
...From Karl Marx until 2016, it was widely believed that “it’s the economy, stupid” — an analytical error that I kept making....
...Modern standup was born in New York: the Marx Brothers brought it to Broadway in the 1920s, Lenny Bruce was routinely arrested on stage in the 1960s....
...I’d feel even better if you have a glass of wine, I reply. “That seems like a fair exchange.” Carney goes for Pinot Grigio. I pick Sauvignon Blanc....
...McKillen points out the mosaic pavements outside, inspired by those by Roberto Burle Marx in Copacabana Beach and laid by Portuguese craftsmen....
...Indeed, Karl Marx and prewar Marxists also experienced manufacturing transformations....
...The author is writing a biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, said Karl Marx. But sometimes, as Mark Twain rejoined, it simply rhymes....
...Karl Marx would be happy, I suspect....
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