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...It’s too self-consciously excessive, precious, girlishly indulgent, and frankly, camp – much like Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, which was a touchstone for Liang’s collection....
...Harry Potter and the Matrix films are his touchstones and, still a virgin, he longs for a white girlfriend....
...Wall Street, particularly its ruthless villain, has for more than three decades served as a touchstone for young men in finance....
...As soon as he could, he headed for New York, where he enrolled in Cooper Union and later married a fellow student, Mary Staikos, who was of Greek extraction....
...Unless the child was Mary Catherine Bateson — daughter of American anthropology power couple Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson....
...Mary Shelley’s 1818 tale of an unformed creature gradually schooling himself in the ways of men is potentially dance-friendly — Balanchine‘s Apollo opens on roughly these lines, after all — but her rambling...
...Amy O’Brien’s obituary of Mary Catherine Bateson (“Academic whose book was a feminist touchstone”, FT Weekend, January 23) presented another welcome example of informing me of the life and death of someone...
...The suite of paintings became a touchstone for European art history, and the one that eventually found its way to Boston symbolised the New World’s cultural ascendancy....
...He appeared in action films with a perfunctory youth gloss: D irty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Race with the Devil (1975)....
...I was never much a fan of Mary Poppins, the 1964 Walt Disney film directed by Robert Stevenson....
...So we must content ourselves with anticipating a royal wedding, a royal baby and a remake of Mary Poppins in 2018....
...His other touchstone was the Virgin Mary, a statue of whom sits in an alcove at the entrance to the factory in Alba, where oozing Nutella is pumped into glass jars and Ferrero Rocher pralines are rolled...
...The slate of nominees for this year’s prizes includes acting nods for Denzel Washington, Daniel Kaluuya, Octavia Spencer and Mary J Blige....
...The latest episode features an essay by the writer Caroline Leavitt called My Touchstone and a Heart of Gold, and is read by the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga....
...“There are a huge number of people for whom the referendum was a touchstone for something far wider,” said Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats....
...One of the FTSE 250 company’s successes is Retroscreen Virology, a healthcare spinout from Queen Mary University of London....
...And, at 101 pages long, The Testament of Mary would have been the shortest-ever winner....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...There she discovers that a forebear, Esther Elwell, was accused in 1692, with two other girls, of being a witch – on the grounds that their spirits hovered over a woman, Mary Fitch, who fell ill....
...And that, for Bob Crowley, remains the designer’s touchstone, no matter how complex the set: “It’s still about people in a space,” he says....
...Nelson Mandela is the moral touchstone of our age: who else so demonstrably chose conciliation over conflict, when he had such cause for bitterness?...
...Mary Cutler has been a scriptwriter on the programme for 30 years....
...Part of the answer lies in her conservative record on touchstone issues such as abortion and taxes, helping reassure Republicans who doubt Mr McCain’s commitment to such causes....
...Shakespeare – or Touchstone, at least – would doubtless approve of such a sanguine, seven ages philosophy....
...the world almost continuously since its creation in 1921, an extraordinary achievement in an industry that saw an average of almost 300 perfumes launched each year for the past three years, according to Mary...
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