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...But his imprint is all over Sri Lanka in temples, universities and government buildings....
...The burning of a human effigy and temple that culminates the annual event is now planned for Monday night....
...Near the peacock hangs a work called “Nesta’s Garden 1980”....
...At one end of the terrace stands a small Ionic temple, where we can relive in exquisite miniature the experience of a Grand Tour visit to Rome — from which Duncombe had himself returned a few years earlier...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Smart read Here’s a disturbing piece from the FT’s Sarah O’Connor, on new academic research on the fallout from sexual harassment and violence in the workplace....
...college basketball in America,” Rothstein tells me, pointing to the rich tradition of what Philly natives call “the Big Five” local universities with competitive hoops teams: Penn, La Salle, Saint Joseph’s, Temple...
...You might suggest that an exhibition dedicated to cars in this billowing temple of starchitecture, two old dudes locked in a very 20th-century celebration of car power and star power, sounds utterly tin-eared...
...Which, in a city said to have more than 1,000 such houses-turned-hospitality ventures – many of them, similarly, temples to high design – is saying something. But there is divinity in the details here....
...dreadlocked in paint-splattered overalls, stood on ladders, meticulously cleaning final sections of spectacular scenes: languid maids in translucent white and gold dresses; fields of irises and stalky poppies; peacocks...
...At the farthest end of the beach at Aberdaron we swam over peacock reefs of tiny stones, the dowry of the sea....
...Elsewhere walls are clad in Japanese screens, embroidered peacocks and African goat leather....
...Indian parents, and the Persians loomed large in the Amar Chitra Katha comics of history and mythology I read as a child: as bringers of culture, as Parsi religious refugees, but also as looters of the Peacock...
...More Ghanaians start arriving in sunflower-yellows, greens and peacock-blues, the women wearing cloth duku headdresses that look like birds about to take flight....
...And everything is filtered through the extraordinary Victorian aesthetic of Two Temple Place....
...I bump about the Rajaji National Park in the back of an open jeep, enjoying close encounters with cavorting black-faced monkeys and peacocks in full tail-splayed majesty, but just missing out on the tiger...
...The walls and the vaulted ceiling are decorated with peacock clouds fading to pale turquoise, each the size of a child’s hand....
...Rescate at the Popoyuapa National Sanctuary in Nicaragua Tuesday, April 4 Technicians remove old paint before applying a new coat on a power transmission tower in Karachi, Pakistan Tuesday, April 4 A peacock...
...The Gauguin shares a small gallery with a lapis lazuli and peacock-blue orientalist watercolour fantasy featuring a Japanese screen, “La Toilette”, by Matisse’s teacher Gustave Moreau, and a rugged self-portrait...
...The Shaolin Monks will be performing at The Peacock Theatre in London from September 29 to October 17 Slideshow photographs: Jack Latham...
...This is an edited extract from ‘Peacock & Vine: Fortuny & Morris in life and at work’, by A S Byatt, published by Chatto & Windus (UK) on July 7 and Alfred Knopf (US) on August 2 Photographs: FCMV/Fortuny...
...The bread trolley alone promises a banquet, trundling along with a conical tower of butter sitting under a giant bell jar and ears of corn spread like peacock feathers behind an array of mouthwatering ficelles...
...Another goddess, Dharampala, the “Protector of the Buddhist Faith”, rides to meet her across the charnel ground, dressed in a magnificent cloak of peacock feathers, while drinking from a skullcup....
...I see wild peacocks and women carrying scythes in the fields. Western advertising is completely absent....
...A peacock’s feathers flutter above the doorway opening on the praying girl....
...Klove, founded in 2005 by designers Prateek Jain and Gautam Seth, brings together the twin crafts of glass-blowing and metalworking to create ornate lights and accessories, such as its Peacock wall mural...
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