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...Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...The group also includes the most beautiful of the six simplified, tender-sombre “L’Arlésienne” portraits, depicting Madame Ginoux, proprietress of Arles’ Café de la Gare; only in this version are the flat...
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...Having studied at the London Film School and worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on L’assedio and Anthony Minghella on The Talented Mr Ripley, she now directs features informed by the art she loves....
...But that’s Tom Cruise: a tiny splinter of granite, chiselled straight from the rock of L Ron Hubbard, he’s never stinted in his commitment to serve the multiplex....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...$25 Cusk’s fictional reworking of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1930s memoir concerns the relationship between its female narrator, identified only as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”...
...Harold Wilson’s incoming Labour government of 1964 went some way in this direction and Brittan was one of those recruited....
...Mr Schiele has brought his frenetic life with him. “It’s crazy. It’s one call after the other with boards and executives,” he said....
...In summer, Isabelle Huppert arrives at the Barbican as the overbearing mother in Tennessee Williams’ heartbreaking The Glass Menagerie, directed by man-about-globe Ivo van Hove for the Odéon-Théâtre de l’...
...Periwal was formerly at L&L Partners. Smart reads Clean as a whistle People in the business world can suffer from reputational blowbacks in the seconds it takes someone to google their name....
...“At a time when Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan was claiming people ‘had never had it so good’, reactions to the play exposed a deep social chasm.”...
...Buyers sought out the relative value of Surrealist works, just as they had at Christie’s the previous evening, notably Joan Miró’s vibrant “Peinture (L’Air)” (1938) for a within-estimate £10.4m (£12m with...
...Sundays — but filled it with hundreds of works, from Renaissance panels to Cézanne’s luminous watercolour “The Spring”, Renoir’s voluptuous/serene “Young Woman with Roses”, Picassos, Warhols, Magritte, Schiele...
...— next to feeble Post-Impressionists Harold Gilman (“Tree”, “In Gloucestershire”) and Spencer Gore (“The Fig Tree”) to demonstrate how UK artists “adapted Van Gogh’s brilliant colours, distinct brush strokes...
...The Royal Academy’s current Klimt/Schiele exhibition superbly evokes this world, and its death throes: neither artist survived 1918....
...Egon Schiele’s love of suits — at odds with the bohemian underworlds he depicted — stemmed from his profound class insecurity....
...J L Lancaster Hong Kong...
...A century after his death, Schiele is more provocative today than he was in imperial Vienna....
...Le Guin and L. Howell”, it was played with Scrabble letters....
...His memories of Britain’s king of shrubs, Harold Hillier in Hampshire, are invaluable both as history and as a gardening lesson....
...The year was 1938, and MGM was making a movie of L Frank Baum’s 1900 book The Wizard of Oz. America needed cheering up as it struggled to haul itself from the Great Depression. War loomed in Europe....
...Please post comments and questions at the end of this article, or email david.tang@ft.com Photograph: Harold Cunningham/Getty Images...
...Older Leo and his reflections are a much more integral part of the proceedings here than in either the novel or Joseph Losey’s 1971 film scripted by Harold Pinter....
...That means the regularly three-monthly get-togethers with the likes of Nigel Wilson from L&G, Ana Botín from Santander and Xavier Rolet from the London Stock Exchange will happen no more — an odd decision...
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