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...Certainly Kenwood has masterpieces — Vermeer, Rembrandt, Hals, and in direct competition Gainsborough’s feathery enchantment “Mary, Countess Howe” — which far outshine his, but its setting places him in...
...‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, Playhouse (Arts Centre Melbourne) A striking production of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece, with Nikki Shiels as Blanche DuBois, the troubled Southern belle with a dark secret...
...I let the last tune drift and in perfect timing “La Belle Vie” comes on. I go to fill his glass. I notice that another guest has managed to slip in unannounced....
...“There are so many levels in which you can read or hear the music in his work,” says the exhibition’s co-curator, Mary-Dailey Desmarais....
...From here, the answer would seem that each of its characters — society belle and solitary outsider — looks at the other and sees the woman they have always wondered what it must feel like to be....
...Working as a waiter, he filled the drinks and brought the plates to the white businessmen and lawyers who hired Mary Belle Jordan for their gatherings....
...The palm court, overflowing with greenery among ancient bulwarks, seems to hover between the Belle Époque and the Jazz Age....
...I realised later that it was also one of the Desert Island Discs of my grandmother, the author Mary Soames....
...There were the statuesque Americans, Mary Ellen Mark and a young Annie Leibovitz, and Hosoe, singing karaoke....
...Her complaint echoes the predicament that confronts many heroines of costume dramas, from Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (published that year) to Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey...
...Mary Lussiana was a guest of La Maison d’Estournel, lamaison-estournel.com, from €190; La Chartreuse residence on the estate (sleeping 16) is available to rent on request; an immersive wine experience can...
...She is “like Sphinx, like Medusa”, Mary Berenson gasped, adding that Gladys’s capacity for telling lies was downright breathtaking....
...It’s not hard to believe that Antonello’s flinty soldier provided inspiration for the suspicious personality that is La Belle Ferronnière....
...La Belle is dominated by women, foremost among them Bill’s sister Mary Agnes who, perhaps to counteract his perceived unmanly cowardice, has taken to dressing in men’s attire and has coolly engrossed the...
...The feud between society belles Caroline Astor and Alva Vanderbilt in 1883 is a famous example....
...Ferrero’s “Rocher chocolates” were named after the rocky grotto where Bernadette of Lourdes had her vision of the Virgin Mary....
...Though minority British cinema has had some indie successes in recent decades such as East is East (1999) and Belle (2013), Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave (2013), is today, perhaps, Britain’...
...Belles-Lettres was a welter of contradictory impulses....
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...of appropriated 1960s iconography, YSL and otherwise: Marianne Faithfull hair and black-and-white striped mink coats; Penelope Tree eyes; Twiggy-style sparkling, embroidered and jacquard mini dresses; Belle...
...Barbara Sukowa, swapping bons mots with Janet McTeer’s Mary McCarthy and political-philosophical bromides with everyone else, deploys a stage-German accent, all “ziss, zat and ze uzzer”. (Why?...
...She had played Belle in Beauty and the Beast; she had even been Mary Poppins. She had an atmosphere of brisk moral energy....
...Female artists Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot also tracked well-dressed belles in their natural habitats, cosseted among the tea sets and bibelots that defined the frontiers of femininity....
...The most accomplished Florentine Madonna, “La Belle Jardiniere” (1507-08), takes from Leonardo the play of light and dark, and the Virgin’s informal pose; her tender interaction with the children Christ...
...By the 1960s, times had changed and the rules had loosened: young women looked to a new generation of designers, such as Mary Quant, who had opened off-the-peg boutiques that were a world away from couture...
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