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...A TikTok video of a young American woman crying about her first real job and her long commute, with the caption “qotd” — question of the day — “in a 9-5 how do u have time for ur life”, has gone viral on...
...Mary Pakenham, an enduring friend, concurs with other voices when she detects in Ian not bristling machismo but a “somewhat feminine temperament”....
...The British Museum has an early example from 2600BC, from Ur, in southern Iraq....
...“As a seducer, he was hampered by ambivalence,” Jonathan Franzen wrote of Chip Lambert, the era’s ur-protagonist, in The Corrections (2001)....
...But however impressive the mosque might be, I thought history sat more gloriously on the Church of the Virgin Mary, whose origins as a Syriac Orthodox church go back at least to the 3rd century....
...(Other presenters are Mary Beard and David Olusoga.)...
...“It’s almost as if the political culture conjured this ‘ur-misogynist’ to go up against our first feminist political candidate,” Faludi said....
...“I’ve seen Turkish, French, Italian buyers,” said Mary Sabbatino of Galerie Lelong, who quickly sold Ursula von Rydingsvard’s towering wooden sculpture “Kryta” (2014) for a price in the low six figures....
...The technique of inlay certainly has a long history, as witnessed on a wooden box from Ur in Mesopotamia lined not with veneers – by which marquetry has come to be defined – but thin ivory and colourful...
...It is also, I suspect, a homage to two of the filmmakers’ obsessive ur-texts, The Odyssey, which inspired O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Joyce’s Ulysses....
...The Plantagenet decorator-king Henry III brought in Sicilian craftsmen to make the ostensibly ur-English shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey....
...In addition to Marvel, the brilliant ensemble includes Mary Catherine Garrison, Mary Beth Hurt, Jennifer Ikeda, Martha Plimpton, Ana Reeder and Marisa Tomei. Tel +1 212 239 6200...
...Even the fragile archaeological remains of the original city, the ur-metropolis, Babylon, have been damaged in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is anti-urban, existing as much in cyber as in real space....
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