Hints and tips:
...First, in 2021, came its public spaces: a dining room, open to the public and majoring in comfort classics (chowder, smash burgers and grain bowls), a café and general store....
...It also works as a lantern for the store below (which actually occupies the space of a former cinema)....
...After all, the gallery’s mix of monarchs and models, pop stars and proto-feminists now looks, perhaps rather surprisingly, remarkably modern....
...At one point, it is implied that he painted in fractured, proto-Cubist style because the “disintegration” of life in French colonies was weighing on his subconscious....
...The studio he built for the artist Mortimer Menpes in Cadogan Gardens (1899) is a beauty of the type, although probably more familiar today as a part of the neighbouring Peter Jones store....
...Today, Wollstonecraft is primarily famous for her proto-feminist manifesto, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, published in 1792....
...His 1987 revivification of the old Michelin building, a proto-Art Deco former tyre depot from 1910, became his global headquarters....
...I consider us a record store and a music community. The primary difference being that we're a way to directly support the artists that you enjoy listening to.”...
...Ponti was also, arguably, the proto-global starchitect....
...His persistence was rewarded when a store in Switzerland called back to say a customer for whom it was holding a watch no longer wanted it....
...The demise of the Isis proto-state looms. But the confusion among its panoply of opponents, especially about the future of a Syria in ruins, is alarming if only, so far, dimly glimpsed....
...Catnips at Love and Marriage, from 1951, was a kind of proto-BuzzFeed in paperback, pairing cat pictures with tongue-in-cheek (and very of its time) relationship advice....
...The band’s founders, Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson and Bob “The Bear” Hite, were an odd couple of blues aficionados: one a skinny scholar, the other a record-store guy who fancied himself as Howlin’ Wolf....
...No, I blame that proto-hipster for making British men buy into the concept of boutiques. Before 1967, if one required a jacket, one visited a gentlemen’s outfitter or department store....
...I try to think of it as an enlightened proto-recycling operation. I ask him how he ever became involved with socks....
...Its thousands of neatly shelved items — thrift store Buddhas and plastic toys from San Francisco’s Chinatown, a burger lamp stand, crates of paintbrushes — all belonged to artist Martin Wong and his mother...
...Few collectors agreed – although Georges de Bellio, a bold Romanian, bought “Le Pont de l’Europe”, and rash department store magnate Ernest Hoschedé paid 800 francs for “Impression, soleil levant”....
...In addition to nefarious ransom and extortion rings, Isis taps areas under its control for money, charging retail stores about $2 a month in taxes....
...This proto-Napster file-sharing service ended badly, with legal actions from media companies. In 2001 he took many of Scour’s engineers to form Red Swoosh, a more legitimate peer-to-peer application....
...This transformed proto-states scarred by centuries of slavery into fairly prosperous, democratic countries. In time – and with some sacrifices – they could resume this more positive trajectory....
...It came as Islamist militants threatened to attack western targets following the French-led intervention to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked fighters who had carved out a proto-state in northern Mali and follows...
...While taking print shop at Clarke, I also met my share of proto-Khans....
...The master praises his two active managers for their performance, but consigns the proto-gold bug to “outer darkness”. In today’s world a lot of wealth is, in effect, being buried....
...about their elite lifestyle, from West relaxing on his private jet (“Sorry I’m in pyjamas but I just got off the PJ”) to Jay-Z’s high-fashion shopping tips (“I dress in Dries [Van Noten] and other boutique stores...
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