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...Catalytic moments have included a 2018 iPhone shoot with actress Michaela Coel that went viral on social media, a 2019 shoot for GQ with Nigerian singer Burna Boy, a collaboration with Virgil Abloh and Off...
...Virgil depicted Helen at the fall of Troy desperate and fearful of retribution from both sides (“a thing of loathing cowering at the altar . . . this abomination”, in Robert Fagles’ translation) but also...
...After shooing away baboons from the forecourt, he searches by torchlight and notices a small casket under a pile of battered portraits of Robert Mugabe, Muammer Gaddafi and Julius Nyerere....
...The icy perfection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s ’80s society portraiture?...
...One freestanding bookshelf holds 4,500 volumes that belonged to the late Slavic studies scholar Robert Bird....
...In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...Based on Shakespeare, with some help from Virgil and Plutarch, it promises to be a big event and marks the breaking of new ground for its composer, a resident of California....
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...Robert Armstrong assesses the impact of the new strain on the outlook for global financial markets in the latest edition of the Unhedged newsletter....
...Dante’s Divine Comedy (Penguin, £16) is read in Robin Kirkpatrick’s acclaimed translation, with Kirkpatrick himself taking the role of Virgil, who guides Dante through hell and purgatory before handing over...
...Robert Ettinger, the CEO of British leather goods brand Ettinger, says that this shift in bag design is reflective of what people need to carry....
...I met him through Virgil....
...One person spotted the obscure references to the crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil....
...Virgil Abloh is thinking about organic progression at Louis Vuitton. “I want to go upwards in trajectory, not flat....
...“To truly power-dress is to express your individuality,” says Jeanne Yang, stylist for Hollywood clients such as Robert Downey Jr....
...Which brings me, in a roundabout way, to Virgil Abloh, who ascended to the role of director of menswear at Louis Vuitton last year....
...The designers at Études recently showed a collection starring Robert Crumb’s provocative 1970s Fritz the Cat cartoons, and the New York Times logo....
...Virgil and Caesar could have written code — letter from Phil Hughes, Menlo Park, CA, US “Virgil and Caesar would probably be quite comfortable in writing computer code, which is essentially just a series...
...Whatever the sins of his mother and father, Robert writes, the child is still a victim....
...Marlowe is adapting wholesale (and occasionally quoting verbatim in Latin) from Virgil’s Aeneid, so the play is fairly big on rhetoric....
...He was prodigiously busy and productive, working close to the centres of power at the Stuart court, in the theatre, and among scholarly friends such as Robert Hooke and Elias Ashmole....
...Aeneid Book VI, by Seamus Heaney, Faber, RRP£14.99 / FSG, RRP$25 (May) A new translation of Virgil’s epic by the late Nobel Prize-winning poet....
...The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert Gordon, Princeton, RRP£29.95/$39.95 This is an extremely important book....
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...Smith is popping stories into my head – the poetry of Virgil, the “imperial anarchs” described by Byron – then points out Ithaca in the far distance....
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