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...I have embodied special agent Leon Kennedy, on a mission to rescue the daughter of the US president who had been kidnapped by a “mysterious cult”....
...Soon the wind is so strong I fear it might strip off my beard. After an hour, Lackner calls time on our folly and we search for patches of good snow served by a lower T-bar....
...There are subtle little gags scattered between the more obvious ones — the oligarch sprouts a Marx beard — but overall the satire is scattershot....
...In contrasting style, Jesús León depicts hedonistic nightlife in his “Domestic Fine Arts” series. For London’s gallery-goers, it will be a window on a dizzyingly energetic milieu....
...gaze offshore / From Leon Di Marco, London, UK...
...With Tolstoyan sweep, this historical novel tells the chilling story of the exile of Leon Trotsky, and of Ramón Mercader, who assassinated him in Mexico in 1940....
...But Gagosian said he had secured the prize for Leon Black, a leading collector and chairman of Apollo Investments, for $106m....
...In 1993, Gary Sinyor broke big in the film world as writer and director of the comedy Leon the Pig Farmer. He will not enjoy similar success with his first play. “Love Life of Brian?...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s art critic Photographs: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images; Tate; View Pictures; AFP/Leon Neal; Iwan Baan...
...Jews who had not shaved their beards ran the risk of being denounced as unpatriotic: a charge that could be lethal....
...His two teachers were Yehuda Pen, a provincial realist, and Léon Bakst, star designer for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes....
...Immediately apparent was a significant British talent, sharing the intensely expressive figurative language and dense manipulation of paint of Frank Auerbach (a fellow student at the Royal College of Art) and Leon...
...On the face of it they’re an odd couple – Russell the lost-in-the-wilderness preacher with a bushy white beard; Elton the grinning entertainer, a man in search of a chat-show sofa – but it proves an inspired...
...Billowing white hair and beard gave Russell the look of an Old Testament prophet. Elton mugged at the audience....
...“We very much appreciate that model of practice,” Ponce de Leon says....
...The interest here is how Ensor distinguished himself from willowy fellow-symbolists such as Félicien Rops and Leon Spilliaert by his frenzied colour and violent, broken brushwork....
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