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...Roberts was similarly transformed....
...Breton renamed the work “Luncheon in Fur”, referring to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s sadistic novel Venus in Furs....
...There were the great personalities in publishing — Liz Calder and Robert McCrum creating superb fiction lists; the launching of Bloomsbury and other independents....
...Its crowning glory is an enormous gilt wood Venus shell headboard. Clearly I have a type. Last but not least in my trio: the fabric-covered four-poster at Dumfries House in Scotland....
...Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus, he observed, when allies protested at the toppling of Saddam Hussein....
...Visitors included the tennis legend Venus Williams and the musician Jon Bon Jovi....
...Medici Florence has yielded many fictional frescoes, from George Eliot’s Romola to Sarah Dunant’s The Birth of Venus....
...An object I’d never part with is a small Giambologna bronze Venus holding the tools of architecture. I’ve had it for several years and I want to be buried with it....
...“Life On Venus” (Trey Mirror remix) by Awkward Moments is out now In my fridge you’ll always find lots of green vegetables, Greek yoghurt, gluten-free beers, plenty of chocolate....
...To paraphrase Robert Kagan’s 2002 essay, “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”, Merkel may have lacked that Martian edge but not nearly as much as the Martians in the US, Britain and elsewhere...
...In the build-up to the 2003 Iraq war, Robert Kagan famously argued that Europeans were from Venus and Americans were from Mars....
...Its size reminded me of the shell in Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”....
...I am talking about the idea that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”. The writer Robert Kagan was referring to their respective propensities to use armed force abroad....
...The political thinker Robert Kagan captured this nearly 20 years ago with his observation, “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” But now Americans are abandoning the god of war....
...At times the ground floor appears more like a busy art fair on opening night, as you are swept along from one gallery to another, glimpsing Jeff Koons’s “Venus” (recently purchased by the gallery), vaguely...
...As the sun went down over London this week, Tom Kerss would step outside to catch a glimpse of Venus....
...(FT) Is there life on Venus?...
...One of them was a famous naked Venus, pieced together artfully from ancient fragments so as to resemble the pose of Florence’s Medici Venus, that icon for randy male Grand Tourists....
...“It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world,” wrote Robert Kagan on the eve of the Iraq war....
...(FT) A radical memorial A huge African-Caribbean version of the goddess Venus, with a gaping wound in her neck, has been unveiled at London’s Tate Modern....
...After Don’s widow, Roberta, died in 2014, Robert and Kate were discussing how best to honour their parents....
...The White House came under further scrutiny on Monday following reports that Mr Trump sought help from Australia to discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation....
...Twenty years ago, before the Iraq war, before Robert Kagan wrote of Europe as Venus and the US as Mars, the loucheness of the Old World was well enough established to be satirised as cliché....
...Robert Hannah: ‘Master Isaac Newton’ All pictures — Getty Images...
...Viacom was referred to by the bankers and lawyers as Venus, while CBS was referred to as Comet....
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