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...porcelain, made their bowls and jars to shine by themselves (a jar with ceramic plum blossom applied in relief is notable), Europeans felt that they lacked a certain bling and so mounted them on golden pedestals...
...Meanwhile, Hui’s friends in high places have fallen from their pedestals....
...Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg at the official opening of a production line for the car industry at a branch of Norway’s Hydro aluminium company in Grevenbroich, Germany Thursday May 4 Britain’s Prince...
...I know Africans are princes as well as paupers.”...
...Above an old pedestal desk, there is a photograph of him with the Prince of Wales. “I have a signed photograph, as well,” he says, “but I’ve never put it up.”...
...Ros Kerslake, chief executive of The Prince’s Regeneration Trust, adds that Middleport Pottery is “a living and breathing part of British industrial history”....
...collection, where it came accompanied with gold collar bars, while there was nothing subtle about Ralph Lauren’s version in his autumn/winter Purple label – it didn’t frame the face so much as put it on a pedestal...
...There was Mandela who was put on the pedestal as a god, as a prince among politicians. You then had Thabo Mbeki. You now have a very different man, Jacob Zuma....
...“In the prison world, he was like a prince. He was a celebrity. Even the guards liked him.”...
...It’s like being against the monarchy and advocating that all should be princes and princesses. If intelligence is overrated we should praise it less, not try to share it out more....
...One is dominated by a hefty tome of Helmut Newton black-and-white fashion photography, strategically placed on a pedestal....
...Since Wall Street has been knocked off its pedestal, the web is now the cooler career, and geeks have become chic. Or rather, the geeks may be redefining chic....
...Because we are the ones that have put her on that pedestal. It’s an unpredicted ripple effect of her appearance at a very special wedding, in a very well-made dress....
...Their gadrooned bowls sit above turned socles, supported on plinth and pedestal bases cast with ribbon-tied wreaths of oak leaves and acorns. £2,000....
...His judgment would be harsh indeed when applied to BMW’s modern take on the original Mini, launched in 1959 and eventually driven by everyone from prince to pop star to pauper....
...Many of its middle class citizens fled to the suburbs of Prince George’s County when crime and drugs ran rampant, the schools were as bad as any in the nation and one of their own, Mayor Marion Barry, ran...
...You’ve got to be whiter than white because you are on a pedestal and, if you fall, you fall hard.” The resemblance to the burden of responsibility that falls on the modern chief executive is striking....
...Pedestals, Wells asserts, do not help us make sense of Shakespeare. They merely put him beyond our reach....
...Similarly one can literally watch an artwork vanish with a canvas created with disappearing paint by the American Richard Prince....
...Mr Spitzer has declared that he will stand for election as governor of New York State in 2006, and his website recounts his triumphs in a similar tone to the pedestal of Ozymandias....
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