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...The work of Shakespeare is widely discussed throughout the book’s early sections; Oscar Wilde, The Sex Pistols and Prince all feature too....
...The less-quoted second half of Oscar Wilde’s famous saying on imitation describes it as the tribute paid by the mediocre....
...By day, the All Saints would see young fashion stylists meeting for breakfasts prepared by a young unknown chef called Skye Gyngell (Spring Restaurant)....
...Clyburn seems impressed and bemused with his dish, which, as advertised, is a platter of seafood placed for some unknown reason on a tower-like structure....
...As Oscar Wilde might have said, to lose one large member may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two would certainly look like carelessness....
...Oscar Wilde of course rests beneath a noble monument at Père Lachaise in Paris. Learning that Jane and Willie lie in unknown, unmarked graves leaves the reader with the saddest pang of all....
...There turned out to be little space for Kuzmin, an aesthete and homosexual, the “northern Wilde”; his works lay forgotten for decades, and some never resurfaced....
...It has been a long haul: in the 1950s he was still largely unknown and it was Charles Mackerras at Sadler’s Wells Opera, as English National Opera was then known, who played a big part in fighting for recognition...
...Photographs: Jonty Wilde, Hugo Maertens, Matteo De Fina...
...Inspired, naturally, by Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant”. It’s translucent, it’ll glow in the dark. Apparently....
...Only Isobel, given a poised and elegant performance by Trudie Styler, criminally unknown to most New York theatregoers, can put the ninny Constantine in his place....
...Herbert Katzman is a forgotten man, a painter to whom the future once pledged fame, then reneged on its promise, leaving him unknown to all but a few....
...first thing I thought of when I heard earlier this year that Isabella Blow’s personal effects – including her wardrobe – were due to go under the hammer at Christie’s London was a sonnet written by Oscar Wilde...
...Paul Stothard is a dispute resolution partner at Denton Wilde Sapte in Dubai...
...– and previously unknown about – derivative position with an offshore company controlled by the fund’s managing director, Magnus Peterson....
...His patron Diaghilev anticipated in 1905 “a new and unknown culture which will be created by us and which will also sweep us away”....
...A particular joy was the discovery of a group of very civilised Bostonians who actually play two ball foursomes matches, a format almost unknown in the US....
...“He is still an unknown entity from the media business and has not given a full presentation to the City. This bid may prompt other bids from private equity firms.”...
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