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...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...But it turned out that politics have prevailed and now he is a lame duck.”...
...“It might sound lame, but it was the idea of challenging masculinity,” explains Cooke. “When we first did them they were in Perspex....
...If he becomes president, Mr Biden will enter office as a lame duck. This has some immediate implications for public health....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...A top might have a cut-out detail, and there were deep V necklines and some short skirts, but most of the women’s looks were sleeved, midi-length and long....
...As he explored the art world, he at first deemed Andy Warhol’s work to be “totally lame.” His own blues guitar licks strike him as “semi-lame”....
...Being pushed into the position of a “lame duck” Chairman, my desire was to create an institutional framework for effective future governance of the group....
...Nothing in the constitution says that the president loses that power when the opposition party declares him to be a “lame duck”....
...In either case, his presidency would have turned rapidly lame duck. But a week is a long time in politics, as they say....
...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...
...To wit: “XINYUAN ZHANG (#1 Chinese Beauty) – pink metallic taffetas lamé blazer, silver “Dream” liquid lamé t-shirt, gold liquid lamé skirt, and star “Altair” necklace, crystal bracelet, gold stitched cross-body...
...This is what she has to say about her art: “This seems so fucking lame to say but I feel like my art became kind of a metaphor – an example of my life . . ....
...In just a few years we’ve gone from Game of Thrones to Lame as Clones. Do you realise we haven’t even had a decent beheading since 1697? I’m all for rarity value but … jeepers....
...At Topshop Unique, tailored trousers came in silver lamé and silver minis and shift dresses in silver sequins with sheer hems....
...Worn by the princess to the opening of the Barbican in 1982, Rhodes’ voluminous pleated gold lamé gown, with its panniers and layers of black tulle, is an extravagant showstopper....
...“I just liked the texture and the look of a Lurex V-neck on a boy: a classic shape in a feminine yarn,” says Jensen....
...Across the room, in “Healing of the Lame Man”, women breast-feed their pudgy babies under twisted classical columns; a great soft-eyed cow awaits its fate in “The Sacrifice at Lystra”....
...Juan Diego Florez’s note-perfect Giacomo V and Colin Lee’s expressive Rodrigo canter through their freakishly athletic arias....
...Lame, and hardly Swift, as Fish is the first to admit, but identifying the logical structure does specify how satire functions at the level of the sentence and, if you want to employ the form, that’s a good...
...But this case shows how lame and arbitrary that rationale is....
...As a result, we had an unusual upside-down V shaped day, as the market ended up down over 100 points, effectively imitating the pattern Wall Street had followed the night before....
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