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...It was in the mid-19th century, after Bellini’s Norma premiered in 1831 with its soaring aria “Casta Diva”, that the Italian term for goddess began being used widely to confer honour on prominent female...
...Confident, jovial and tattooed, Ford won over audiences when he took US television’s Top Chef title in 2015, while he was working for the legendary Jean-Georges Vongerichten....
...Memphis: Plastic Field (Editions Norma, 2019), €39 (published for the MAD Museum Bordeaux’s exhibition Memphis Plastic Field, June 2018 to January 2020) Giorgio Armani silk shirt, £680, and silk T-shirt...
...She says its matter-of-fact tone was influenced by a 1983 song written by the romantic partner with whom she will forever be associated, Serge Gainsbourg, on the death of Marilyn Monroe, “Norma Jean Baker...
...There are echoes of Sunset Boulevard’s discarded movie star Norma Desmond. Deborah is still big, it’s the jokes that got small — a mere 140 characters in some cases....
...Norma Desmond was right: it was the pictures that got small. Now they are about 13 inches across on a laptop. Stars have been queueing up to shrink into people’s screens....
...In the case of Ingrid Escamilla, her husband, blood streaking his torso and soaking his jeans, was arrested and confessed to killing her....
...Photographs by Norma Jean Gargasz Graphics by Christopher Campbell • Your gift will be doubled If you donate to Habitat for Humanity through the FT’s Seasonal Appeal, the Hilti Foundation, a charitable...
...So I compromise and offer up a few ideas, which is how we end up at Jean-Georges....
...Jean Baker had run into the creators of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” or Beyond Good and Evil....
...Norma Powell, general director of Haiti’s Center for Investment Facilitation, says Caracol’s development is “picking up”, but that it “was bound to take time”....
...“There’s an enormous demand for Haitian exports from the US and the Caribbean,” says Jean Lucien Ligonde, a local backer....
...The current fashion for low-cut jeans can thus result in a phenomenon known as the “muffin top”, as fat rolls over the waist. N Brown cuts a range of jeans so that they are shaped and sit on the waist....
...Cecilia Bartoli, artistic director and resident prima donna of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, made news last year with her first Norma....
...Jean-Pierre Aubry, assistant director of state and local research at CRR and a co-author of the paper, says that even if the long-term investment returns proved accurate – and many investment experts doubt...
...Jean-Christophe Dumont, head of the international migration division at the OECD, says about a quarter of immigrants are concentrated in jobs that represent declining occupations....
...Jean-Christophe Dumont, head of the international migration division of the OECD, said that while it is clear that international migrants make a lower net contribution to national coffers than their native-born...
...However, Jean-Christophe Dumont, head of the OECD’s international migration division, said the net contribution of the native born – tax receipts paid in minus the value of benefits paid out – was likely...
...Jean-Christophe Dumont, head of the international migration division at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, noted that eventually those immigrants will grow old and turn to their host...
...Prices for clothing and footwear – especially in outdoor clothing, men’s jeans and jumpers and women’s cardigans – rose sharply between February and March....
...Later, she tracked down Jean Harlow’s colourist and had him attend to her hair....
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...But the couple are played by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. Both are in their eighties now, and they look it....
...“I am big,” says the slighted Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950). “It’s the pictures that got small.” She had no idea....
...But at what was the last monetary policy meeting chaired by Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB’s governing council was divided over whether to cut interest rates as well....
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