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...Breton renamed the work “Luncheon in Fur”, referring to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s sadistic novel Venus in Furs....
...Some writers become gloomier with age — Hardy, Ibsen, Beckett — while others — Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf — kick up their heels and indulge in transcendent play....
...“Twenty-five years ago this wasn’t a nice area,” explains Christophe Ysewyn, owner of the minimalist, 17-room Hotel Pilar that sits on a corner of the leafy Leopold de Waelplaats square that fronts KMSKA...
...The cleaners who came for King Leopold II in Brussels this July knew what to do....
...Following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol last summer, Cardiff City Hall said it would remove a statue of Thomas Picton, the governor of Trinidad who authorised the torture of a 13-year-old...
...Nicholas Thomas raises some interesting issues in his article with respect to the art of Africa (“Whose art is it anyway?”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, December 8)....
...Thomas, the adapter/director of a Broadway version of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novel of dominance and submission, is tired and tetchy after a long and fruitless day of auditions for the role of “mistress...
...As a result, the Refugee Convention “is quite minimalist” said Alexander Betts, the Leopold Muller professor of forced migration at Oxford university....
...“Einstein wore it all the time — a fact mentioned in the memoirs of fellow scientist Leopold Infeld who worked with him at Princeton,” Mr Venning said....
...Made in Germany in about 1760 by Austrian clockmaker Leopold Hoys, the remarkable decorations were probably sculpted by Bonaventura Joseph Mutschele....
...‘Tracey Emin — Egon Schiele: Where I Want to Go’, Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 24-September 14, leopoldmuseum.org...
...Kunstkammer and contemporary art have also come together in the collections of Thomas Olbricht, displayed in the Me Collectors Room in Berlin....
...“In King Leopold’s day men fought over rubber and ivory in Congo; today it is gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and coltan (columbite-tantalite, used in laptops and mobile phones)....
...Based partly on an 1870 short novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, from whose name Krafft-Ebing derived the term “masochism”, this interval-less 100-minute evening, offered by Manhattan Theatre Club, features...
...Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold, by John Guy, Viking, RRP£25 Guy, a leading authority on Tudor England, delivers a vivid account of the life and times of Thomas...
...Simon Leopold Simon Leopold joined Morgan Keegan in February 2004 as a communications equipment analyst....
...My earliest literary influence was Dylan Thomas. His books were strewn all around our house. What are you most proud of writing? My biggest failure, Zoli, a novel about a Romani woman....
...Then I had to walk over two dead bodies which I think were waiters at Leopold’s.” said Thomas. Later a bartender at the café confirmed that at least one of his colleagues was shot dead....
...Then I had to walk over two dead bodies which I think were waiters at Leopolds,” said a Lufthansa steward, who identified himself only as Thomas....
...Kennedy was murdered in Dallas in November 1963, the young Thomas de Zengotita found himself caught up in a similar moment....
...The affair was part of a deluge of challenges to US boardrooms in the 1950s by the original corporate raiders – men such as Wolfson, Thomas Mellon Evans and Leopold Silberstein, household names in their...
...The archetypal modern murderers were Leopold and Loeb, who, when asked why they killed their kidnap victim, replied, “Because we damn well wanted to.”...
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