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...Conductor Robert Ames cued the orchestra’s entry at precisely the right time....
...A portrait of Leonello d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara, by Giovanni da Oriolo in 1447, delivers the north Italian ruler as the epitome of abstract power by showing him in profile in the manner of Roman emperors...
...Junius Paul, a funky, deep-toned foundation on bass guitar, was joined by trumpeter Marquis Hill and the amazing guitarist Matt Gold....
...Fellowes reaches back into a nearer past than the 1920s and recycles his Oscar-winning 2001 script for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Hollywood invading an English country house....
...The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan (Knopf) A comprehensive history of America’s rise to global superpower, from would-be neutral player to self-appointed...
...They dined in an alcove off the dining room, which was dominated by a massive John Singer Sargent portrait of the 6th Marquis of Londonderry....
...Though de Castellane doesn’t mention a particular children’s book, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses from 1885 immediately comes to mind. “The house sort of chose us, really....
...Many people get into personal preparedness because of politics, says Ramey of The Prepared....
...Soares gratefully name-checks the man responsible: “Yelle Bettencourt, he was a principal dancer with the Marquis de Cuevas, he worked with [George] Balanchine as well....
...David Yazbek’s numbers have a chatty, cabaret-like feel to them that accommodates a range of vocal styles and blends well with Robert Horn’s book, which is full of salty one-liners....
...Arnot-Roberts, a collaboration between Nathan Lee Roberts and his Napa childhood friend and ex-cellar rat Duncan Arnot Meyers, was founded in 2001 and became one of the first proponents of the new wave....
...It was good to see new young bass Michael Mofidian as Alcalde and, at the other extreme, veteran Robert Lloyd, 80 next year, as a wonderfully patrician Marquis of Calatrava. What is there not to like?...
...Graf York von Wartenburg Dechert LLP, Brussels/Frankfurt Tom McQuail Morrison & Foerster LLP, Brussels Marius Juonys Ellex Valiunas, Vilnius Peter Alexiadis Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Brussels Robert...
...This intention is underlined in the publicity material: the ICA has eschewed the many iconic images of Acker in circulation — including by Robert Mapplethorpe — in favour of grainy video stills....
..., Sidebar Red 2015 Russian River Valley, £26.95 Berry Bros & Rudd Raen, Royal St Robert Pinot Noir 2016 Sonoma Coast, £59.95 Z&B, Clos & Cru Trefethen Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 Oak Knoll District, £44.95...
...Richard Lashbrook of Thorman Hunt told me that they sold the 1994 vintage that put Harlan on the map (US wine guru Robert Parker gave it 100 points) at £41 a bottle....
...Admittedly, in 2008, the flight to lighter wines was in its infancy in the US but Au Bon Climat, Eyrie and Ramey could have fielded some candidates....
...More than three centuries later, the Marquis of Montrose tried to seize Dunnottar after his victory at Fyvie, but failed and burnt the surrounding countryside instead....
...A single buyer is sought for the group, which includes the original draft of the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom and Napoleon’s love letters to Josephine....
...“The owner,” he noted, “is an Italian nobleman, Marquis Paolo Sersale, a strong handsome man of about 50 who dresses mostly like a beachcomber and works very hard.”...
...A strong ensemble includes Sophie Koch’s Mother Marie, Anna Prohaska’s Constance, Thomas Allen’s Marquis and Luis Gomes’s Chevalier, bravely replacing an indisposed Yann Beuron mid-performance....
...The onetime history student loves quotes from the past, and one of his favourites is from James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, who in the 17th century wrote a poetic defence of living dangerously that runs...
...By the time Nigel Farage settled into the Marquis of Granby for his first lunchtime pint on Friday, it was already clear that he and his UK Independence party had achieved something extraordinary....
...Successful to a point, anyway: four of the party died on the way down, including Lord Francis Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry’s brother....
...Robert Tornabell, a professor at Barcelona’s Esade business school, has known the Botíns for years....
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