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...His installation for Venice, he tells me, is a four-metre-tall ziggurat composed of clay replicas of some of the thousands of religious and other ornamental objects looted by British troops during the punitive...
...A pastel is a stick of pure colour without almost any liquid vehicle, just a bit of binder to keep it together and some chalk or clay to change the tone....
...I also have a pair in the likeness of my dogs, Winston and Clementine....
...Then they started to burrow their way into the thick London clay. (Each room now features a rustic-looking vase made with clay taken from beneath the hotel.)...
...Occasionally, he incorporates a portion of the ash into the porcelain clay to form a speckled, textured surface....
...His simple, clay “Head of a Girl” (1925-28, pictured above), sold for €80,000 (€109,239 with fees) on November 21, ahead of its estimate despite being a protected historical monument, which tends to cap...
...Kynaston perfectly captures Norman’s attitude to economists with a quip he made on the appointment of Henry Clay as the Bank’s economic adviser: “Mr Clay, we have appointed you as our economic adviser; let...
...Now I want a chalk-stripe suit à la Winston Churchill, with flashy buttons....
...In 1937 he observes of Eden, who was in the first of three stints as foreign secretary: “Eden is not made of iron, but rather of soft clay which yields easily to the fingers of a skilful artisan.”...
...“All of these clays, all these oils, will disappear in a generation,” he says, citing globalisation and the move towards generic product....
...Its pièce de résistance was a new lake that took six years to dig out and line with clay, then more than a year to fill....
...There’s a necklace (“Jewellery always goes for more than it’s worth,” says Archer) and a day’s clay-pigeon shooting (“I don’t understand it but people love it”)....
...Winston Churchill had seen Boer commandos using guerrilla warfare against British troops when he was a young war correspondent....
...Yet judges remain, of course, human beings, with feet of clay just like ours....
...It was Winston Churchill in 1940. The writer teaches history at King’s College London....
...In fact, like Henry Clay Frick or Norton Simon, those other great collectors, Barnes had developed a brilliant eye....
...Otherwise for mile after mile there was little to see but clay houses, palm trees and the fertile fields whose plump crops nourished so many empires in centuries past....
...But he preserved an awareness of himself as mortal clay, which seldom failed to move his intimates....
...In 1984, Winston Smith believed he had evaded telescreen surveillance but it was simply hidden behind a picture. The machinery of government will always be there....
...Now then, the 21st-century rationalist wants to ask – at what point in the process did that sculpture, that lump of clay, become sacred? Is this an argument about intentionality?...
...The Moorish-styled hotel, which has famously hosted Agatha Christie and Winston Churchill, had the languid feel of a tropical village shuttered for its afternoon siesta....
...A little later poor Winston Churchill is archived in, to suggest he too is responsible for drug-crazed kids who bash up celebrity chefs....
...Ship comes sailing MV Havengore, the Thames survey vessel that carried Sir Winston Churchill’s coffin along the river after his state funeral (Mudlark, August 24/December 13), failed to find a buyer at...
...Not-so-old master An exhibition of art by old boys of Harrow School including Sir Cecil Beaton and Sir Winston Churchill opened yesterday at Christie’s auction house in King Street, St James’s....
...Malcolm Walker has clearly been inspired by Sir Winston Churchill’s words: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”...
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