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...On the sides the detail is intricately lovely: the Hotel d’Anvers with its double-storey pilasters; graceful 18th-century houses, their height exaggerated, lining the Quai Henri IV; fishing craft gliding...
...Coup leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was this week named interim president and head of the armed forces....
...organises W&W....
...Tension has been rising in recent months between Mr Ouattara and his two main rivals, former presidents Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The night St Paul’s lit up at the FT’s command / From Nick Handley, Haywards Heath, W Sussex, UK...
...Even he, George H W Bush, signed tax rises into law and embroidered his Reaganism with patrician manners....
...W. Eugene Smith followed a country doctor on his rounds in the Rocky Mountains in 1948, catching moments of humble heroism....
...The one I have is a Selmer tenor, which I bought at Henri Selmer in Paris around 35 years ago....
...Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia and Man Ray also lived there, and Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani were nearby....
...Henri de Castries , who has held the position for almost 17 years, will step down in September. He will be replaced by Thomas Buberl , a 43-year-old who runs the group’s German business....
...“With these flights, what you get is a flying tanker with a few people on board,” said Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, former chief executive of Air France, in 2008....
...Jackie Wullschlager ——————————————- ARCHITECTURE Critique of Everyday Life, by Henri Lefebvre, Verso, RRP£25/$44.95 Lefebvre (1901-91) saw the realm of everyday life as something that needed to be seized...
...Yet C.R.W. Nevinson refused to acknowledge the horror in his oddly dream-like “Archies”....
...‘Snapshot: Painter/Photographers from Bonnard to Vuillard’, edited by Elizabeth W....
...My eye is caught by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs of India and Bell tells me a story that shows the pull India still has on the British, even the Iron Lady....
...“Maybe it took a George W. Bush – a full, real-life embodiment of Klein’s ridiculous anti-hero – to drive home the satiric point.”...
...Later in life, Pound and Lewis – once described by W.H. Auden as a “lonely old volcano” – would be tarnished by their anti-semitism and far-right sympathies....
...The other great British modernist from this epoch, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, is also underplayed: his only work here is a small aluminium “Dog”, although his masterpiece, Tate’s compressed cubist “Red Stone...
...He captured them at what the great Henri Cartier-Bresson called “the decisive moment”. “My whole principle was to capture the mood and atmosphere of the moment,” he said....
...Salvador Dali, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anaïs Nin and Norman Mailer dropped by. All of this became material for Smith....
...themselves on occasion so it’s nothing to get hung up about is a laudable one, but building an entire show out of such incidents can arouse ambivalent feelings in those of us who can’t always achieve what Henri...
...Decision Points, by George W Bush, Virgin RRP£25 Bush’s account of his presidency has been unsurprisingly controversial....
...The only thing I have done is to design the strip label which goes on the back of all my wines, which is an M with a W on the top and the necessary details....
...Forster, W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, as well as high-society bohemians such as Lady Ottoline Morrell....
...Second, an Obama presidency will give hope to an America that, during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency, began doubting itself and its famous “mission”....
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