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...“You’d learn to communicate using ornament, scale, light and so on....
...Or, if you’d prefer, look at the post illustration....
...This is the heart of the appeal — and has got me rooting through my wardrobe experimenting with a look I never thought I’d revisit....
...“You know what a succès d’estime is, don’t you? A success that runs out of steam.”...
...And he’d come out of nowhere so fast that there was no social context for him. Covid didn’t help. The fact that he was in Hong Kong didn’t help....
...Following rebirth in fourth-tier Serie D, Parma won three consecutive promotions and returned to Serie A two years ago....
...This is the “Ascot Gavotte”, one of the highlights of Bartlett Sher’s spry, enjoyable Lincoln Center Theater staging of Lerner and Loewe’s beloved musical My Fair Lady....
...By nine, she was riding the Tube across a blacked-out London to wow GIs with her risqué routine alongside grown-up stars like Randolph Scott and Anna Neagle....
...There are also clear affinities between Sebald’s genre-hopping and contemporary “auto-fiction” of the sort practised by writers such as Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner and Sheila Heti....
...For John D Rockefeller, ownership of Standard Oil was an automatic consequence of entrepreneurial hard graft....
...In 2018 French cinema gave Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda its highest honour, the Palme d’Or, for the exquisite Shoplifters....
...It turns out he’d failed to read the small print when accepting the fellowship and hadn’t reckoned with being expected to work alongside other fellows in what is called, portentously and with a capital “...
...That’s much less than she would usually make at the fair but, she says, “Once we’d accepted the situation, we didn’t have huge expectations....
...Ben Lerner is one of the most acclaimed American writers working today....
...The screen test or the actual part if he’d got it? “If I’d got the part. It’s a big thing.” Does he regard himself as a success? “As a success?...
...Listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book on the FT Culture Podcast To hear Ben Lerner discuss white male rage, the origins of Trump and his new novel The Topeka School, listen to...
...You may have thought you’d never make sauce from a packet, but you would be wrong....
...It’s meant to be symbolic, assuming she’d still have access. But the account has gone private — she can see nothing....
...You can listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book, The Topeka School, on the FT’s culture podcast Culture Call....
...With works such as Deller’s in mind, Jonathan D Katz, an art historian and adviser to the exhibition, argues that mainstream ideas of masculinity have become increasingly “queered”, with stereotyped ideals...
...“A phone would ring and you’d think, ‘Of all the songs, you chose that!’ ” There is a point to these meditations....
...“Foreign investors would be spooked and you’d get another run on the currency,” she says....
...Think of Franklin D Roosevelt, who interned US citizens of Japanese descent during the war and tried in 1937 to pack the US Supreme Court....
...She’s a figure straight out of Evelyn Waugh, partying on the Côte d’Azur at the racy Château de l’Horizon with Randolph Churchill and other socialites just before the war....
...And technology industrialists Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Marc Randolph, Reed Hastings, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are this era’s John D....
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