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...More cheerfully, we can relish this “sprawling cock and bull story” as an epic virtuoso turn....
...While Eliza’s own career has since swung financially between rags and riches, artistically it has been relentlessly inventive....
...“You can make them out of rags, you can use old clothes . . . You can make a social event; the slaves did it,” she said in 1994....
...With obsessive attention to verisimilitude, he’s positioned every crumpled rag and darkened every carpet stain....
...As a rags-to-riches story it has a bit more to it than the overnight success of an internet start-up. And it has also brought him influence....
...It was among a lot of the white collar, professional, “natural” Tories he’d face — Tories all their lives — were just starting to basically lose their rag and lose their faith in him completely....
...Flags — these days, the rags of polemical rage — also have a mixed history....
...Connery’s own story was a classic “rags to riches” tale. Born in Edinburgh in 1930, he was the son of a truck driver and a cleaning lady....
...An epic match over the future of football is about to kick off....
...His late father Dhirubhai Ambani was one of 20th-century India’s most celebrated rags-to-riches success stories, rising from petrol-pump attendant to lead a polyester-manufacturing empire....
...We see “Poor Joe,” folded in on his rags to take shelter from a brutal London night, rendered visible to genteel society only through the photographer’s tender sympathy....
...masterpiece, “Autumn Rhythm”, and leaps from those dauntless drips to their far-flung heirs: the Japanese painter Inoue Yuichi’s fusion of calligraphy and pure gesture, Judit Reigl’s accretion of paint-soaked rags...
...He’s completed that epic journey to Kyrgyzstan twice now and didn’t want to miss this new route....
...I’ve gone from rags to riches and back again, and more than once. Whatever happens to you, you put it on a page, work it into a shape, cast it in a light....
...ran a headline in The Register, an industry rag, mocking the internet company’s corporate punctuation....
...The 50-year-old Althoff undermines his limited gifts with adolescent grandiosity, laying out soiled rags and tea-stained crockery like holy relics, simply because they are his....
...He is epic but real, so they can write about him....
...Alan Riley, law professor at City University in London, argues the Gazprom clash is likely to be the defining antitrust case of the decade — a worthy successor to the epic regulatory battle that embroiled...
...Before leaving in spring 1955 to film George Stevens’ epic Giant he even tore down his photograph from the wall in the Warner Brothers commissary. “What do they want to do? Kill everyone’s appetite?”...
...Serious postwar British artists surely did the same: Lucian Freud among splattered rags and floorboards in Paddington; Howard Hodgkin’s intimiste abstracted bedrooms; the designer cool of David Hockney’s...
...Finns like to furnish their cottages with colourful rag rugs, which are often homemade using offcuts from old clothes and pieces of fabric....
...The epic saga of how it went from having per capita income less than half of Ghana’s until the 1960s to being the world’s seventh-biggest exporter is an inspiring but brutal narrative....
...By 1983 he was expecting to hit the big time with his fourth book, Armageddon Rag, about a rock band....
...This book blends some of those super-cool images with photos of factories and aeroplanes, malls and world fairs, the postwar US world of plenty presaging the epic images of Andreas Gursky....
...She is almost a porcelain pillar in this very epic landscape,” she says. “I wanted this strong voice to come from her, quite deep, quite low....
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