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...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...(The Banshees of Inisherin) Brendan Fraser (The Whale) Paul Mescal (Aftersun) Bill Nighy (Living) Best Actress Cate Blanchett (Tár) Ana de Armas (Blonde) Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) Michelle Williams...
...Niels Erich San Francisco, CA, US...
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...Letter in response to this article: Unlikely interwar visitors to the Hotel du Cap / From William H Janeway, Cambridge, Cambs, UK...
...There was some John Williams in this 10th-anniversary Prom too, though not until the encores....
...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Something stinks in supply-side economics / From Niels Erich, San Francisco, CA, US...
...If only we had known at the time that he called Erich Honecker, East Germany’s reactionary communist leader, a “scumbag”, and that he dismissed Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romanian dictatorship as a “primitive...
...In the late 1920s Erich Mendelsohn designed radical stores for Schocken in Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Chemnitz which introduced a slick, urban modernism, functional and elegant and self-consciously illuminated...
...The following decade Fritz Lang and his production designer Erich Kettelhut imagined a similar city of the future, a hybrid of contemporary Chicago and a great factory or steelworks with lifts and sky bridges...
...There were 360,000 Russian refugees in Berlin in 1921-22, most of them mired in a life of penury and homesickness, forming what the historian Robert Williams called a “community of despair”....
Musical standards were commendably high at the orchestra’s winter concert
...Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front blazed the trail, selling nearly 2m copies in 1929....
...Among the most poignant for Bowie-watchers is the Brücke Museum, which he frequented to gaze at the works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Erich Heckel, whose “Roquairol”, with its stark depiction...
...Many were exiled, such as Erich Korngold, Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek, and notably Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who became unlikely neighbours in Los Angeles. Everywhere music was in flux....
...If you’ve ever wondered when “British racing green” came to be so named, it was in April 1929 when half-French, half-English daredevil, special agent and sports-car driver William Grover-Williams took his...
...The event, based at Grundarfjördur in western Iceland, combines time at sea with a series of lectures from experts, including the author and conservationist Erich Hoyt....
...“Talbieh is an encyclopedia of great period architecture; from high-Ottoman to the international style,” adds Snyder, who admires Talbieh’s Bauhaus buildings by master architect Erich Mendelsohn....
...“I find the fact that ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams is one of the most played to be very bizarre....
...The British do slightly better, especially the deserving William Slim, with Bernard Montgomery described as “a highly competent professional” who nonetheless “never achieved a masterstroke”....
...Emma Williams brings mischievous warmth and vocal vulnerability to Jenny, the feisty Catholic girl with no money but a musical gift....
...Emma Williams is immensely appealing as Jenny, a mischievous Italo-American sprite until the illness strikes....
...All in all, writes Prof Ewing, “we have a surveillance regime that would have caused Erich Honecker to glow with pride”....
...Erich Reich, chairman, Kindertransport Group, Association of Jewish Refugees. Michael Richards, national cancer director. Mota Singh, judge. Patrick Stewart, actor....
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