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...An early revelation is the Frick’s “Officer and Laughing Girl”, a luminously sweet, unusually constructed conversation piece....
...When explaining himself yesterday, Bettel said he wrote the paper “to the best of my abilities” — the exact wording zu Guttenberg used 10 years ago, as Luxembourg reporter Diego Velazquez pointed out.https...
...Before I knew it I was floating through the gossamer worlds of Claude and Poussin, past swashbuckling Velázquez portraits and Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro showstoppers....
...“The number one priority for Pemex, as outlined in our strategy presented in December, is to stabilise production,” Pemex’s chief financial officer, Alberto Velázquez, said on the conference call....
...Mexico’s total crude production in the quarter averaged 1.69m barrels per day, of which Pemex produced 1.661m and commercial partners produced 29,000, Alberto Velázquez, chief financial officer said in a...
...Alberto Velázquez, Pemex’s chief financial officer, told a conference call with analysts that with strong support from the government, Pemex was now “on the right track”....
...Three years before “Las Meninas” Velázquez — Philip IV’s court artist — had portrayed Maria Theresa in a dress stitched with gold and pearls....
...If I get stopped by a police officer for a traffic infraction, that stop might lead to me not being able to pick up my child,” said Ms Velazquez Ruiz. “There is a fear about a lot of what-ifs....
...It’s a black box,” says Mr Velázquez of Acerinox....
...Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 Velazquez was a professional dancer from Puerto Rico, according to Orlando Weekly, a local weekly alternative newspaper....
...The 52-year-old, son of the Princess Orietta and British naval officer Frank Pogson, has the slightly old-fashioned turn of phrase of a Norfolk country gentleman. He refers to “oneself”....
...Today’s highlights include Correggio’s “The Agony in the Garden” (c1525) and four paintings by Velázquez....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...When German officers, discovering “Guernica” in Picasso’s studio in occupied Paris, asked “Did you do this?”, the artist is famously supposed to have replied: “No, you did.”...
...September 2012: Iván Velázquez Caballero, more commonly known as “El Taliban” and leader of a splinter group of the Zetas cartel, is arrested....
...The subject was plucked from the headlines: when a French frigate sank in 1816, politicians and officers (including the captain) grabbed the lifeboats and left the crew to drift on a makeshift raft....
...His yelling caged popes – he did 45 altogether – have the silk-and-velvet grandeur of their inspiration, Velazquez’s “Pope Innocent X”, combined with the instant, rushing horror of a modern urban nightmare...
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
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