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...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...negociant CVBG; wine writer Jane Anson; the young Chinese wine educator Alexandre Ma; and Prince Robert’s right-hand men, third-generation winemaker Jean-Philippe Delmas and sales director Guillaume-Alexandre Marx...
...Modern standup was born in New York: the Marx Brothers brought it to Broadway in the 1920s, Lenny Bruce was routinely arrested on stage in the 1960s....
...McKillen points out the mosaic pavements outside, inspired by those by Roberto Burle Marx in Copacabana Beach and laid by Portuguese craftsmen....
...value of a troy ounce is up just 15 per cent from when Warren Buffett wrote his 2011 investor letter dumping on the logic of buying lumps of metal, though it’s gained around 10,426 per cent since Karl Marx...
...Marx argued the plough gave us the feudal manor and the steam engine gave us the capitalist mill....
...To paraphrase Marx, the codes of Paris are the codes of its ruling class....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...“Pirates africains enlevant une jeune femme” plays on the contrast between black and white skin, “L’Indienne mordue par un tigre” on the texture of animal pelt against vulnerable flesh....
...In one corner, Valdivia has a black L-shaped desk, clean as an operating table. In another, there is a double bed covered in a shiny, black-and-burgundy bedspread....
...It combines an underlying structure of regular lines and proportions with extremely pretty planting, and it aims in many places for what they describe as l’opulence....
...Instead Baldwin’s words are left unchanged, with narrator Samuel L. Jackson giving voice to them....
...This one is especially good if you are after subtlety rather than Groucho Marx-style brows. The texture builds up easily....
...Like all Paris, Rodin had been dazzled by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and when Nijinsky premiered L’Après-Midi d’un Faune in 1912, he was happy to undertake a public defence of its onanistic climax....
...In the interim he had become a celebrated novelist, lecturer and poet, the recipient of major awards including the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique noire and a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur....
...The 18th-century French political philosopher Montesquieu tried to make trade respectable by writing in De L’Esprit des Lois: “ . . . the natural effect of commerce is to lead to peace....
...Christian Boltanski’s “L’Homme qui tousse” (1969) and Bruce Nauman’s “Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain” (1983) are classic distillations of claustrophobia and fear heralding a dark, troubling biennale...
...It began on the left with Alphonse Toussenel’s Les juifs, rois de l’époque (Jews, Kings of the Epoch), in which the old canards of physical blood-sucking now became capitalist vampirism à la Rothschild....
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...… Eleanor Marx: A Life, by Rachel Holmes, Bloomsbury, RRP£25 Marx produced the first English translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, was the first woman to lead the British dock workers’ and gas workers...
...The novel’s translator was Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, and I learnt that her life, too, had curious affinities with that of Emma Bovary....
...Selected by Fraser and The Beatles as well as Blake and Haworth, they range from James Dean, Marlene Dietrich and Marlon Brando to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Indian gurus admired by George Harrison....
...He was scheduled to attend two fundraisers for his presidential campaign, one with gay and Latino donors hosted by singer Ricky Martin and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Leadership Council...
...L Hardy, Gidleigh, Devon, UK...
...“We are all Mohamed Bouazizi,” Mehdi Belli, a university IT graduate working as a merchant in L’Ariana market in Tunis, told me....
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