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...Reverend Vanessa Rush Southern tells me in her airy office in the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, whose early members included the essayist and abolitionist Ralph Waldo Emerson....
...Jessica Bell Brown, curator for contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of ArtTrust by Hernan Diaz Trust just won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
...Best known for his 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost, which introduced many western readers to the horrors of Belgian rule in what is now Congo, Hochschild has developed something of a speciality in delving...
...We have reached the final scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...A series of numbers from Walton’s film score for Henry V, perhaps one too many, showcased rousing speeches from Dominic West’s King Henry....
...In the Raj, the ruling classes prepare to celebrate King George V’s Silver Jubilee — so do some Indian dissenters, awaiting their chance to “blow the lords and ladies to kingdom come” — while on Corfu, a...
...Why The apartment — designed by Scott Sanders, former head of interior design at Ralph Lauren — is ideal for a bachelor who likes to entertain....
...Granted, at that time “comedy” simply meant a play with a happy ending, and granted too there is a deal of surreptitious mickey-taking of Shakespeare’s Henry V, which may well have been playing at the Globe...
...Although he was very lucky to be a Ralph Lauren model. What is the role of corporate sponsorship?...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Paul Baptiste, operations director for The Shop at Bluebird, on London’s Kings Road, thinks that unexpected finishes bring the look up to date....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Corporate clients include Credit Suisse and PolyGram; private customers include Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Lauren and David Tang....
...Then there were parties to inaugurate new stores: Bulgari’s bi-level boutique on avenue George V, its largest store in Europe, and Ralph Lauren’s emporium on avenue Montaigne, its largest women’s wear store...
...If the dress code is casual, Baulk’s adopts a more Ralph Lauren-ish get-up of crisp white shirt, smart jeans, shades and knotted pullover worn around the shoulders....
...as a Mongol emperor, a satanic Iago (kissing the Othello of Ralph Richardson full on the lips) and an athletic and muscular Coriolanus....
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