Hints and tips:
...But, after reading Understanding Comics, I think I’d prefer to go to the (virtual) office dressed as a cartoon character than a creepy almost-human....
...Here, in 1737, together with a master painter and kilnman from Vienna, the Marquis Carlo Andrea Ignazio Ginori, a well-travelled politician and diplomat who’d encountered the so-called “white gold” (hard-paste...
...Taking a long-term view, I’d be tempted to invest heavily in it now – so long as, like me, you also enjoy drinking it....
...His home, built originally for the Marquis d’Aubigné, appeals to his love of period architecture and childhood memories of his father’s 17th-century country pile, which was stuffed with antiques and tapestries...
...But you’d fall in love with her across the room. You’d fall in love with her ethereal face, her obvious charisma....
...A portrait of Leonello d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara, by Giovanni da Oriolo in 1447, delivers the north Italian ruler as the epitome of abstract power by showing him in profile in the manner of Roman emperors...
...Alice called him “the Marquis” because he was so demanding, for Blanche he was “a violent character, with a good heart”. Like Picasso, his art altered each time the woman in his life changed....
...Tucked away at the far end of a courtyard, the 17th-century townhouse was commissioned in 1674 by Louis XIV’s secretary of state for war, the Marquis de Louvois, for his children....
...As he points out in his memoir, “if the Marquis de Béchamel had not invented his divine sauce, he would long ago have been forgotten”....
...Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao (Yale) How China’s economic success continues to be shaped by Mao’s communist ideology, which has positioned...
...The equally starry Marquis d’Angerville of Volnay, Ramonet and Michel Niellon of Chassagne-Montrachet, Etienne Sauzet of Puligny-Montrachet, Paul Jaboulet Aîné of the northern Rhône and Faller of Alsace...
...Tuscany’s blooming heirloom In 1924, Iris and Antonio Origo purchased La Foce, a 2,800-hectare estate on a hill above Tuscany’s Unesco-protected Val d’Orcia....
...“If the next management team didn’t uphold that obligation, there’d be legal liability that the company would take on.”...
...I interviewed him in the year of Short Cuts, that masterpiece elliptically mosaic’d from Raymond Carver stories....
...Brora was founded in 1819 by the Marquis of Stafford (he of the notorious Highland Clearances), originally under the name Clynelish....
...Hermès Twilly d’HermèsChristine Nagel has been doing wonderful things at Hermès since she became its new nose....
...This time, he’s particularly proud of the Château Bel Air-Marquis d’Aligre 1996, at £45 per bottle....
...I remember when I was 18 doing a variation really well and he’d say ‘I heard you. Every landing you made: I heard you.’...
...L’Arlot, Nuits-St-Georges, Premier Cru Clos des Forêts St-Georges Dom Pierre Damoy, Grand Cru Clos de Bèze Dom Marquis d’Angerville, Premier Cru Clos des Ducs Dom Michel Lafarge, Volnay, Premier Cru Clos...
...There is a bottle of Jamet 2016 Côte Rôtie for €65; a Coche Dury 2016 Bourgogne Blanc at €50; Ghislaine Barthod’s premier cru Chambolle 2014 is €95; and a bottle of Marquis d’Angerville 2009 Volnay Champans...
...“Whenever they wanted the female American radical to comment on anything . . . they’d pull me out of the cage.”...
...de Marquis d’Angerville in Volnay, and Jean-François Curie, chief executive of Maison Boisset, Burgundy’s largest négociant house (a merchant that brings together the produce of smaller winemakers and growers...
...If I weren’t so shallow and fundamentally greedy, I’d have been devastated by the betrayal....
...We drank white wine mixed with fresh peaches and the ricotta spinach pasta with fresh tomato sauce was the best I’d ever had....
...She thought she’d write about the Marquis de Condorcet, whom she describes as “the first Frenchman to say that women were the moral and intellectual equals of men in the 1780s”....
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