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...Lindsay Mendez achieves the impossible by turning the thinly written part of the writer, Mary, into a force of good nature, her knockabout humour barely veiling a tortured conscience as she slips ever deeper...
...It features the work of 19 artists from Australia and around the world, including Louise Bourgeois and Maria Kozic. Free entry....
...María Dolores Estévez Zuleta, known as Lola la Chata, led her own drug-trafficking organisation based in Mexico City....
...And of course there is the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella – they still wrap every single bar of soap by hand. lorettacaponi.com, smnovella.com An unforgettable place I have travelled...
...We start on a late spring afternoon in Rome, where we pop into the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena just around the corner from the Pantheon....
.... ★★★☆☆ Dora the Explorer may be a cartoon no longer, but she is hardly less animated. In Dora and the Lost City of Gold , her flesh-and-bones incarnation (Isabela Moner) is as perky as ever....
...Tate director Maria Balshaw told me: “I don’t strive for shows 50 per cent by women because that’s a feminist gesture, but because we want to refer to the world we live in.”...
...A handful continue to cast their spell: Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nietzsche and Rilke); Cosima Liszt (Wagner); Dora Maar (Picasso); Beatrice (Dante). And then, of course, there’s Alma....
...In the Dream House is short-story writer Carmen Maria Machado’s fragmented and elliptical account of domestic abuse in a lesbian relationship (Serpent’s Tail RRP£14.99, January; already available in the...
...Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, Spain’s culture minister, said the ruling “has been complied with”....
...Surrealism welcomed unbalanced women: Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar and Frida Kahlo all explored personal trauma in paint. Men, too, cultivated an attitude of mental fragility....
...Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, a Sicilian judge in Rome who is the UN’s global special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, says “some kind of consent” for this scale of Nigerian criminality must have come...
...June 2011: José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, known as El chango or “The Monkey Méndez” and suspected successor to Moreno González, is arrested. 2011: Arguably the most violent year in the government’s war on...
...Real-world celebrities such as Dita Von Teese and Karl Lagerfeld are interviewed, and the work of designers such as Stella Jean and Maria Dora, who are profiled as Panem style icons, can be bought at real-world...
...Georgia’s richest man, mining billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, for example, snagged Picasso’s “Dora Maar au Chat” (1941) for $95.2m at Sotheby’s in 2006....
...Works by one of its most high-profile artists, Dora Longo Bahia, are anything but pretty....
...Mr de Guindos, a former deputy finance minister under the administration of José María Aznar, will be joined by Cristóbal Montoro, a former budget minister and veteran politician, who in the new government...
...“Considering the situation, that bail was denied, he has to figure out for himself that he is hurting the institution,” Maria Fekter, Austria’s finance minister, told reporters as she arrived at a meeting...
...The conservative Austrian People’s party has appointed Maria Fekter as finance minister following the resignation of Josef Pröll because of ill health....
...José María Arias, chairman of Banco Pastor, one of Spain’s smaller listed banks, said on Friday that he had been speaking to investment bankers to see how to take advantage of the restructurings, although...
...Mr Rubalcaba will replace María Teresa Fernández de la Vega as the de facto spokesman for the government and be in pole position as Mr Zapatero’s successor if the prime minister decides not to stand for...
...unable to talk to three: the Chinese space programme declined to take part in the project; Israel’s only astronaut Ilan Ramon died in 2003; and we failed in our attempts to contact General Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez...
...Two days after José María Roldán, the central bank’s head of regulation, warned of the likelihood of further bad loan provisions by banks and cajas to cover the riskier parts of their €445bn in Spanish construction...
...María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Spain’s senior deputy prime minister, called the measures “a rigorous plan, with which we are convinced we’ll reach 2013 having done our homework”....
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