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...The cerulean blue vase, reflected in a mirrored niche, used to belong to Cecil Beaton....
...John Rockefeller ran an illegal oil monopoly. Cecil Rhodes was a racist and imperialist who established an entire British colony based on brutal exploitation....
...This fascinating double-album release captures Alice Coltrane overcoming an extended period of mourning for her late husband, saxophonist John, and marks her determination to follow a spiritual path....
...I write in response to John Moore’s letter “Philanthropy or giving — the wealth of difference” (January 13)....
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...In 1561, Elizabeth privately backed Mary’s claim to the English succession, against Cecil’s favoured Protestant candidates, says Guy. Cecil believed religion came first and dynasty second....
...Tom Magnier, son of John Magnier, the owner of Coolmore, one of Juddmonte’s biggest competitors, said simply that the prince “left a remarkable stamp on the industry”....
...Meanwhile, set in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, John Wonnacott’s fluent, loosely painted 12-footer “The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait” (2000), also looks back, to John Lavery’s 1913 royal...
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...Cecil Beaton photographed the royal family from 1939 to 1979, the year before his death....
...and a drawing of her father, the actor Sir Michael Redgrave, by Augustus John....
...Chess: 2344 Four-time Australian champion Cecil Purdy composed this puzzle and gave the answer as one and three-quarter moves....
...John Chilembwe poses with a white friend in a 1914 photograph, his wide-brimmed hat worn jauntily sideways....
...Machines threaten to put Louie and her sister Lucy, both glovemakers, out of work and prompt John (Ben Allen), Lucy’s lover, to emigrate....
...Captured in the soft light of a north window, with hog-hair brushes and in the manner of John Singer Sargent, the life-sized portrait is at once theatrical and calm....
...distinctive palette that has since become the signature of decorative bohemianism and regular visitors included the writer Lytton Strachey, art critic Clive Bell (husband of Vanessa) and the economist John...
...house – it opened in January – presents various masterpieces in its next sale, with a wealth of old masters’ paintings and sculptures as well as 20th-century photography by Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin and Cecil...
...portrait without blanching her blue eyes (which tended to happen with black-and-white film stock) and learned his craft on silent films, assisting cinematographers Alvin Wyckoff, a frequent collaborator of Cecil...
...Politicians such as John Kerry, Biden’s top climate diplomat, have insisted coal miners will find jobs in the new green economy — erecting wind turbines, for example, or installing solar panels....
...Hayes, 38, has been likened to a modern-day John Singer Sargent, and trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence. Hayes immediately wanted to paint her. “I’m obsessed with profile....
...There’s even a trusty guide in the form of John Wright’s book The Forager’s Calendar. Toast Foraging Hamper, £99, and Christmas Hamper, £135...
...Three grandee alumni — Lord Charles Cecil, a former banker who was the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, Robin Priest, a former partner at Deloitte, and Sir John Aird, a one-time page of honour to the Queen...
...The BBC was guided by a “High Victorian paternalism” embodied by its first director-general, John Reith....
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