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...Our only companion was a noble hound with a large and loose jaw and, soon, a waiter. A Campari spritz followed, and then there was the bruschetta....
...Entering from the damp street, you are suddenly confronted with bright red canvases inhabited by strange forms: amorphous grey figures encircled with black lines, shot through with patches of canary, azure...
...In the playground on the western edge of Ichinono, a mother watches fussily over a group of children as steel-grey clouds pause between autumn downpours. Two children are on scooters....
...Roth’s approach to dressing wasn’t always so expressive: he began his career wearing a uniform of black, blue or grey Prada suits, albeit with an untucked shirt and a buzzcut....
...“I want to paint myself to death,” Freud said, and sure enough, days before he died in 2011, he was still attending to the whippet’s ear in “Portrait of the Hound”....
...he exults, as he picks up a scrap of wood laden with Usnea articulata, or “string-of-sausages” lichen — a grey-green tangle, threaded with miniature sausage-shaped growths....
...The grey stone town is still standing and its history is irresistible....
...In the Prado’s intense psychological study of a fur-wrapped unknown sitter with grey curls, light enters at an angle to illuminate an authoritarian, tense face — worried eyes; severe, pursed mouth — and...
...“His collar is clean,” Bilal says, using an Urdu idiom for Khan’s personal integrity and tugging at his own grey shirt collar as he speaks. “He’s a good Muslim and an ambassador of Islam.”...
...You’ll often encounter well-heeled walkers with twin chow-chows, prancing poodles or Afghan hounds with enviable coiffs....
...Even Dartmoor’s most famous song, “Widecombe Fair,” features a ghostly grey mare....
...The all-star Chez Dede Via di Monserrato 35, 00183 Rome Good for: small-batch editions that showcase best-in-class Italian eccellenze Not so good for: trend hounds — Chez Dede style is built to last,...
...Then the voyeur is endangered: in the horned “Self-portrait as Actaeon” (1949) Freud becomes the Greek hero transformed into a stag, torn to pieces by his hounds for glimpsing Diana....
...As tasteful as the winery itself — a low-key, sustainable, modern grey stone edifice on which London-based architect Pierre-Yves Graffe has worked since 2009 — the wine is suitably Lafite-like....
...In an untitled acrylic of 2014, the Iraqi artist depicts a striding general in a khaki greatcoat who is gripping the collar of a slavering hound as if poised to unleash both its savagery and his own....
...Before the sun had risen through London’s grey skies, 140 investigators from the Financial Services Authority had raided 16 different premises across the capital and the Home Counties....
...Right, in half light, four men and a boy holding a hound. Behind, a stable of hurdles. Landscape background....
...sartorial tumbril went the six velvet jackets, long and draped, short and bum-hugging; floppy lapelled, double-frogged; the burgundy, the bottle green, the take-no-prisoners black, the burnt sienna, the dove grey...
...The former is stiff though charming, the latter a miracle of light flowing, flickering, animating the unimaginative, portly, affable monarch who wanted nothing more than to be left to ride with his hounds...
...On a grey April day it took skill to find the castle’s housekeeper, Maria, in her carpet slippers in the café between the castle’s entrance and the family’s 18th-century church....
...On a trip to South Korea in the 1990s, he endured course after course of kimchi, the traditional fermented vegetable dish, which he loathes, and ended up singing “Hound Dog” in a karaoke duet with a conglomerate...
...Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s “The Dog” is so strikingly naturalistic that it is almost trompe l’oeil: the representation of the alert hound was intended to stand in a fireplace during summer to exclude draught...
...The unusual talks, perhaps a first in the grey realm of “track two” or parallel diplomacy, sought to overcome the mistrust of hardliners on the many sides of the Middle East’s divides ahead of the resumption...
...Alnwick Castle, from its emptiness to its grey kitchen lino and feuding staff, felt “all wrong”. “It wasn’t a happy place,” she adds. The new duchess approached this unwanted move as a job....
...And then there is the self-parody “Emigration”: a mass flight of dogs, downcast on all fours, except for one anthropomorphic hound on hind legs, brandishing a knapsack and pathetically waving a paw as he...
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