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...When the final applause ends, some people roll them, like marbles, across the dark floor. The Timeless Moment feels more like a philosophical experiment than an act of music theatre....
...I wanted slabs of marble and waterfall marble sinks. I love just looking at it. It makes me feel opulent and relaxed....
...Few contemporary artists could match this — but step into Kew’s Shirley Sherwood Gallery and Mat Collishaw’s “Albion” immerses you in a silvery moonlit forest where a near-life-sized negative of a tree is...
...Hostile walls of black marble take the place of all the opera’s many settings; here intimacy and disgrace are played out under the cynical gaze of a tainted society....
...Back at her home, the flower beds are interwoven with blooms of Japanese anemones and Shirley poppies....
...Vernon Hill, co-founder of struggling Metro Bank, took flak for contracting wife Shirley’s business to design its wildly overspecified branches (lots of marble, free dog biscuits)....
...“I don’t know if my collection is the Elgin marbles but it’s the Elgin marbles to me,” says Stern, who has appealed against the ban....
...The property mogul began with a description of the 300 luxury rooms – everything from bathroom fixtures to the marble – before turning the event into a reverse version of The Apprentice....
...The marble bathroom walls had no holes in them. Nor were there any bolts or screws. The toilet was not where the police had said....
...Eddy Way, under a spongy piece of ground, alongside the modest markers of Lydia Bemmels and Leiland Irish, in almost the literal shade of Paramount Studio’s main lot, not far from the tombs and stones and marble...
...Patti Waldmeir is the FT’s Shanghai correspondent Additional reporting by Shirley Chen ………………………………………….....
...“These relics of the industrial past are being appreciated more and more for their aesthetic value,” says Shirley Apthorp, who has reviewed these productions for the FT....
...“In 30 years from now, there will be marble statues of me all over Germany,” he told Sonnenfeldt....
...Aschenbach arrives in a life-sized gondola, his hotel is a monumental marble edifice, Venice is depicted in scaled-down models of landmarks, costumes echo Visconti’s film....
...Shirley Johnston is the author of Egyptian Palaces and Villas (Abrams, £29.95)....
...That is certainly the case at Sotheby’s Olympia saleroom on Wednesday when Dame Shirley Bassey is having a clear-out of furniture from her Monaco apartment....
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