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...Before the building’s six-year Italian facelift, it was an unattractive 1970s office block — but one that the hotel’s architect designers Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel nevertheless found to have a certain...
...In this revival of his 2013 production for the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Olivier Py’s Dialogues des Carmélites still captures the piercing timelessness of Poulenc’s 1957 opera....
...The words tumble out with the same impunity as the notes that flow from Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s violin when she plays one of her idiosyncratic improvisations....
...Was she actually a proto-feminist who had the willpower and defiance of a champ? Did her carefully constructed dumb-blonde persona both conform to and subvert Hollywood’s ideas about women?...
...With the help of the French-born, US-based advisor, Patricia Marshall, López not only collects but commissions works....
...On a smaller scale, the “Champ”, marketed as “the most intelligent scarecrow ever invented”, bears a resemblance to the pests it is trying to deter: it has a vaguely bird-like “eye” and a yellow “beak”....
...Several hundred people had also gathered in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe, just outside the Avenue des Champs Elys?...
...“The games would have given dynamism to our country that so badly needs it,” said a disappointed Patricia Déon from Paris. “Now we just feel like losers in lots of things - the games, the referendum.”...
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