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...It fetched 51,000 francs — six times the estimate — and was bequeathed to the Wallace Collection....
...Seventy years ago, newly celebrated Modernist architects descended upon Trousdale Estates, including Wallace Neff, Paul R Williams and A Quincy Jones....
...Collection’s Frans Hals: The Male Portrait....
...It contains internationally renowned works such as “The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals, “The Lady with a Fan” by Diego Velázquez and treasures from French painters of the 18th century including Boucher...
...Equally Frans Hals and Van Dyck at the Wallace Collection were like calling on old friends, but I never meant to spend the month only with the comfortably familiar....
...Occasionally he comes across as a bit of a know-it-all; a Hal Incandenza (the precocious, tennis playing protagonist of Infinite Jest) when he should be trying to be himself: “Qv the ‘Pharmakon’ stuff in...
...Alex Hassell’s Hal, in turn, runs the full gamut from tavern capers to battlefield valour and court dedication without straining....
...We read Infinite Jest because we cared what happened to Gately and Hal; here, not so much. This problem — likeability — will put many off Lurid & Cute....
...The early Hals portrait, Young Man Holding a Skull, is unusually sombre for the ebullient Haarlem painter; Hals more in Hamletian than Falstaffian mode....
...And, like Hal, he could talk about anything. As Max reveals, Wallace collected pathologies....
...The opening scenes take place in west Berlin’s LTTC tennis complex to bring to life Boston’s elite Enfield Tennis Academy, home of troubled prodigy Hal Incandenza, one of the novel’s protagonists....
...Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, an anti-GM group, said: “There is a danger that the industry will use rising food prices to tempt more farmers, particularly in developing countries, into GM....
...Wallace Tyner, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in Indiana, points out that even though cellulosic ethanol has benefited from a federal renewable fuel standard (which mandates production levels...
...He conversed earnestly with William Wallace, a 69-year-old retired tour operator from Fairfield, 50 miles south-east of Iowa City, whose banner stated: “Healthcare can’t wait.”...
...The most famous painting in the Wallace may be Frans Hals’ “Laughing Cavalier” (who, it has often been said, is neither laughing nor a cavalier) and the greatest painting may be Rubens’ “Rainbow Landscape...
...For many farmers, the worst is yet to come, says Wallace Tyner, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, about 50 miles north-west of Indianapolis....
...“It’s pretty easy to take a shot at ethanol, but the reality is that it’ll be a part of any ‘final package’ on energy,” says Wallace Tyner, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West...
...‘La Collection La Caze’ runs at the Louvre, Paris, until July 9, then at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau, from September 20-December 10, then at the Wallace Collection, London, from February 14-May 18 2008...
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