| 单词 | aristocrat |
| 例句 | Matthias could not help feeling a certain amount of sympathy for the lonely aristocrat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “You were led astray by this aristocrat. Be quiet!” he said with a hint of anger when Fidelito looked ready to take the blame again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This sort of rhetorical stance isn’t the preserve of the English aristocrat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I curtsy and give him my hand like some pretentious aristocrat, which makes him laugh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Big Numbers, Small Probabilities People’s facility with numbers ranges from the aristocratic to the Ramanujanian, but it’s an unfortunate fact that most are on the aristocrats’ side of our old Mainer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt knew that swanky meant something only an evil, rotten, spoiled aristocrat would do. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see our aristocrat needs further education,” said the Keeper. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sooner this nasty little aristocrat goes to the plankton factory the better. That’s all I can say.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Two aristocrats are out horseback riding and one challenges the other to see which can come up with the larger number. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I doubt the aristocrats slept on the cold floor,” the nurse whispered to me before accepting Poet’s hand. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The concert hall as a dedicated venue was still a novelty outside England, but wealthier members of the bourgeoisie were often invited to hear musical events inside the grand palaces of aristocrats and princes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “So the aristocrat presumes to lecture us about equality,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the aristocrat was brought in, Luna helped load him into bed. He saw writing on the boy’s right foot.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at his hands: they were not those of a refined, intelligent aristocrat, but of a man who has nothing interesting to say. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason for this was that he worked for an aristocrat, Prince Esterhazy, at his private houses. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was all about aristocrats and how attractive they .might seem on the surface but how vile they really were inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oho! We have an aristocrat here,” said one of the border guards. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can see we have a nasty little aristocrat who needs to be educated about the will of the people!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see we have social contamination of the worst order here. The aristocrat has turned this boy into his lackey. And thus, it is the lackey who should be punished.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many parts of the butchering process did not require the skill of JohnnyJoyce and the other butcher aristocrats. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The sophists—of whom Gorgias was one of the first examples—were essentially just private tutors who trained Athenian aristocrats in philosophy and rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I think our young aristocrat has understood the lesson,” he said gently. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z An aristocrat was the lowest form of life, a parasite who expected honest peasants to be his slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The black panther is an aristocrat in the animal kingdom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For now I just let Thomas navigate me around the crowds of generals and aristocrats. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He still thought of himself as an aristocrat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Those aristocrats who regretted the waning of their influence saw a chance to claw some back, if they could master the skills required to dominate the assembly. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Negro boys and girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats—the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Alba was told that her father was a distinguished and intelligent aristocrat who had unfortunately succumbed to fever in the northern desert. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder the idea of learning how to talk round a large mass of people was something that Athenian aristocrats—traditionally *So named, supposedly, because it met on a big rock above Athens. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As it turns out, the mere fact of having a unit to myself makes me an aristocrat within the Blue Haven community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think the aristocrat needs to understand why his behavior must be controlled,” Jorge said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since he read about this Swedish aristocrat who bombed Nigerian targets with his own small plane, he had wanted to meet him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The rest of you must help this aristocrat see the error of his ways. We do this because we love him and want to welcome him into the hive.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Christians who could prove blood purity might live in dire poverty but could claim a certain amount of equal status with aristocrats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Her glance caught Poirot’s and swept over him with the nonchalance of the uninterested aristocrat. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny never stopped reminding Knife of this: “They were aristocrats who would rather cut their throats than consort with criminals. You’re merely spoiled goods.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Now I know he’s an aristocrat,” said the other border guard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was the condemned young aristocrat holding my head high in the tumbrel. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Why does everyone keep calling me ‘the aristocrat’?” asked Matt as they trudged back along the line of shrimp tanks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Probability theory was invented to help rich aristocrats win more money with their gambling. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In 1651, a freak accident leaves the son of an English aristocrat with a gaping hole in his chest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As a man, Malcolm X had the physical bearing and the inner self- confidence of a bom aristocrat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As Chicago moved into the twentieth century, the golden days for Joyce and the other butcher aristocrats were over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Very good! Let us dance and celebrate. Tonight we sleep as aristocrats,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Many aristocrats and wealthy merchants themselves played viols at home, too, sometimes combined in a duet with a plucked lute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z What is burned to the ground, satisfyingly, are the houses of holdout slave owners, landed aristocrats. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z In America, if you are watching tennis in August while eating, you are functionally an aristocrat. Hey, Mr. Critic: U.S. Open Dining: Game, Set, Munch - Hey, Mr. Critic 2011-08-25T22:30:36Z This one wreaks several variations on the theme of the wealthy aristocrat testing the love of his sweethearts, which seemed an entirely superfluous activity in this production in any case. Review | ‘The Touchstone’ is a deservedly forgotten opera. Wolf Trap makes a case for remembering it. 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z For society's aristocrats in the early 30s, the allure of black jazz musicians had very little to do with social justice, and a lot to do with the giddy thrill of defying convention. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z Kraven is the orphaned son of Russian aristocrats with a penchant for hunting big game. 5 lesser-known Marvel characters coming to the onscreen MCU 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Zen tries to figure out whether a disgraced aristocrat jumped off a bridge — or was pushed. Sunday's TV Pick: 'Entourage' season premiere 2011-07-20T22:21:04Z In the 1920s and ’30s Hammer, the manufacturing tycoon, helped supply Western currency to the Soviets, in exchange for their loot of aristocrats’ Fabergé jewelry, Easter eggs, picture frames and stone animals. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z A penniless young aristocrat determined to maintain the contemplative life of a country gentleman must, suddenly, get a job. Perspective | We need comic novels more than ever. So where are they? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The race began after a local aristocrat banned bullfighting in 1590. Blood and passion fuel Siena's street horse race 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Earlier in the film, discussing a designer’s collection, he declares, “Eskimos were treated like the aristocrats, and the aristocrats were treated like the serfs.” Review: ‘The Gospel According to André’ Barely Scratches the Surface 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Far from biblical, he is a Golden Age aristocrat. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Their home became a famous gathering place where they held weekly salons for artists and collectors, scholars, dealers and aristocrats to see the latest examples of what was being produced during those years. The Week Ahead 2012-02-24T20:02:05Z We next see her as a captivating dancer who wins the heart of an aristocrat; when he is falsely accused of theft, they land in jail together. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The aristocrats who traditionally support this, the most prestigious of the Great European Festivals, had more than enough reason to hate everything “The Exterminating Angel” stands for. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z One complicating factor: He materialized recently as a dashing aristocrat on British television in this year’s “Downton Abbey” Christmas special. Matthew Goode Makes Mark in ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The idea of Wotan and his dysfunctional family of gods as aristocrats losing their hold on power is not new. Review: In This ‘Ring’ Cycle, Gods Dwell in an Old Theater 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z He was, after all, the product of a genetic English-speaking union between a British aristocrat and an American heiress. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z I get so angry about revisionist ideas of him as an aristocrat or as a group of people. Shakespeare and me: Paterson Joseph 2012-06-30T23:07:07Z But following parliament acts passed by MPs in 1911 and 1949, this power was curtailed when the elected House of Commons enshrined in law its own dominance over the aristocrats' House of Lords. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z On the eve of World War I, and in its aftermath, aristocrats and artists walked these grounds in tuxedos and evening gowns. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z His new caper "Mortdecai," about a bumbling aristocrat on the hunt for a stolen Goya painting, doesn't look like it will change any of that. 'Mortdecai': Johnny Depp's high jinks get low marks from critics 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Selim here is a bland, bored aristocrat with his private coach on the Orient Express. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Uneasy at having cast a pall of uncertainty over a literary masterpiece, I deliver my talk, about Tolstoy as aristocrat. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Icy doesn’t begin to describe the chill that sets in when this caricature of a cold English aristocrat appears in any scene, her eyes glinting with cruelty. | 'Cat Run': Snipping Off Appendages and Other Comic Ploys 2011-03-31T22:33:16Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3a4av In this dazzling portrait done shortly before the civil war, a British aristocrat poses as a heavenly being. Divine rule: Anthony van Dyck's Rachel de Ruvigny, Countess of Southampton, as Fortune 2012-08-30T10:02:37Z She was also a smart and savvy aristocrat with a fiery and seductive side to her. The 7 most shocking Victoria's Secret revelations from Hulu's "Angels and Demons" docuseries 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Diderot and his Encylopédie and this Enlightenment idea that basically knowledge had been held back by the aristocrats and all the rest. Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world 2013-05-04T23:00:04Z Most of the action in “Collaborators” is set in the cramped apartment that the writer shares with a series of government-assigned roommates, including a disgraced aristocrat and a disgruntled teacher. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z But Woodeson makes it clear that Max inhabits a non-existent world in which he imagines he once hobnobbed with racetrack aristocrats or entered into deals with continental butchers. The Homecoming ? review 2011-08-04T10:54:01Z The markings were customized for businesses, like schools and inns, and for aristocrats, farmers, merchants and intellectuals. Personalized Bottles, Ceramic Royals and Chinese Artifacts 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Built in 1732, the mansion housed a wealthy wig maker and financial speculator, then waves of aristocrats until 1820 when it was turned into a Catholic boarding school before the French state took possession. Recasting Rodin’s Life and Work 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The woman in question is the Countess Sophie Chotek, a minor Czech aristocrat whom he married against the wishes of the Emperor, Franz Joseph. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The princess, 60, has brought a dose of American entrepreneurialism to the role of Roman aristocrat. U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z His most memorable achievement must be the nearly all-black-and-white scene in “My Fair Lady,” in which Eliza Doolittle makes her debut among aristocrats at the race track in a slinky dress and extravagant hat. Art Review: Cecil Beaton?s Work at Museum of City of New York - Review 2011-11-10T23:02:14Z In “The Great,” viewers meet Catherine as the impossibly naïve daughter of a struggling German aristocrat. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z They're something of a lucky dip but the likes of Lord Babs, a seafaring musical in which an aristocrat pretends to be a baby, certainly sound deserving of preservation. This week's new film events 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z The Unlikely Activist Jemima Khan may live the grand life of an English aristocrat, but behind the famous boyfriends and the important hair is a serious political journalist and a budding documentary film producer. T Magazine: The Unlikely Activist 2013-05-29T15:00:48Z Girault was an aristocrat from a conservative stretch of northeast France, and he relied on a tidy inheritance to pay for his travels. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The dapper aristocrat and amateur sleuth fell, and fell hard. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z As an aristocrat, Cavendish was well-educated for a young woman of her period, and she later learned science and philosophy from her husband William and brother-in-law Charles. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Mbatha-Raw, 31, is also up for most promising newcomer for her turn as a Caribbean slave's daughter who was raised as an aristocrat in 18th Century England. Cumberbatch and Spall vie for award 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z They remained in government hands until 1966, when Dutch officials sold "Adam" and "Eve" to George Stroganoff-Scherbatoff, an American heir of Russian aristocrats who claimed he was the rightful owner. Norton Simon dealt setback in Nazi-looted art case 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Rotting turnips could feed animals and make great compost, but this didn't exactly endear them to aristocrats. Turnips: How Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Among the paintings of aristocrats and socialites that made his career, his dignified and varied portraits of Black sitters stood out. Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z To most aristocrats, exercise was a break from being sedentary, which was part of being elite. A machine that used to be considered punishment is now a $1.4 billion fitness industry 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Beyond this, the main emphasis is to present aristocrats and royals as flawed gems whose humanity overrules their loyalty to tradition and society rules. "Downton Abbey" is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Come closer, and you see that images of French aristocrats have been replaced by images of black nuns and goddesses, and well-dressed white lynching victims hang from trees. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z His silky growl and insinuating gaze “make him a prime candidate to play a jaded aristocrat privy to every dirty secret within his purview,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Ghost Writer’ and ‘A Little Chaos’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z There’s more if not much, including a strained use of “The Cherry Orchard,” which is being mounted by a theater with Julie in the role of Lyubov, the indebted aristocrat who loses the orchard. | 'Henry?s Crime': Man Needs Caffeine Jolt or Reversal of Fortune 2011-04-07T21:30:18Z Washington’s gallery, which opened in 1968, was modeled after London’s with its rows and rows of kings, queens and other bewigged aristocrats. How the National Portrait Gallery’s gala tapped A-list celebrities to become a hot ticket 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In the book, these characters are aristocrats, with decades of conniving and debauchery underneath their wigs and powder, who conspire to corrupt a chaste woman. In ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton Play the Game 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “Louis Cartier loved the neoclassical style of garland jewelry, the style that his clientele of aristocrats preferred,” Pascale Lepeu, a curator of the Cartier Collection, said by telephone from Geneva. A Rare Gathering of Cartier's Best 2012-12-06T16:30:20Z Hogarth portrays all aristocrats as decadent, all politicians as corrupt, all capitalists as money-grubbing and all doctors as quacks. Hogarth and Scarfe offend humanity … and that is why they are great 2013-01-30T14:19:02Z She would have been kept busy chronicling the Who's Who of European moguls and aristocrats who still pack out the hotel's beach club. Five Reasons to Visit Monaco 2012-01-05T05:45:00Z The Vignials, to their credit, are a far more welcoming brand of aristocrat than you might imagine. A French Castle, Now Open to All 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Improbable aristocrats, likeable eccentrics, would-be actresses, circus performers and cabaret workers—no one is ever who they appear to be. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z And had any been born an aristocrat, it wouldn’t have trafficked in such painstaking visions of glamour. It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Its story of a British aristocrat discovering his Jewish origins and devoting himself to a Zionist cause kindled Lazarus’s interest in “Jewish repatriation” and “self-emancipation.” Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z So coffee, Mr. Gopnik said over dinner, “restores us to the world,” but it also helped create the contours of an extended restaurant repast, one in which “for three hours, you’re an aristocrat.” Adam Gopnik on the Days of Great French Dining 2011-11-02T04:30:11Z Fraser sees the opposition to reform of the "traditional Tory aristocrats" as deriving from an innate and deep sense of responsibility to preserve the stability of the country. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z The stamp was later sold to a French aristocrat whose collection filled three palace rooms. ‘The One-Cent Magenta’ is a brisk tale of ‘the most valuable stamp in the world’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z For one, it generally has aristocrats in it – very posh old people rattling and bumbling around in enormous houses that are crumbling around them because they can't afford to repair them. TV review: Country House Rescue 2012-06-14T20:00:06Z Curator Andrew Nahum believes his fame was consciously cultivated by the masters of the industrial revolution, who wanted a secular working man's hero instead of aristocrats and admirals. Science Museum recreates James Watt's workshop 2011-03-23T10:29:17Z Traveling around Europe and appearing at various courts, including Versailles, the Mozarts are treated as a circus act by aristocrats insatiable for novelty and gimmicks. French Film Festival Looks Back, to ?70s and 1700s 2011-03-02T10:18:20Z The band soon attracts racy, royal fans, and before long fashionable young aristocrats are falling over each other to make friends with the musicians, in some cases falling into bed with them. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z The wild stateside success of the British period drama about post-Edwardian aristocrats and their live-in help has piqued interest in the life of servants in the Gilded Age mansions of the seaside city. A glimpse downstairs at America's Downton Abbey 2013-02-15T10:16:04Z Oldman, no slouch when it comes to devouring the scenery, plays Father Solomon as a displaced Middle European aristocrat, all sibilant S's and perfect coiffure. "Red Riding Hood": The "Showgirls" of fairy-tale movies 2011-03-10T23:01:00Z It’s not long in “Bridgerton” before Simon Basset, an eligible Black aristocrat, announces himself with star-making swagger, and no shortage of naked flesh, in the sultry form of newcomer Regé-Jean Page. ‘Bridgerton’s’ Approach to Race and Casting Has Precedent Onstage 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z If it works at all, it is because of Kidman’s commitment to a gilded-cage princess who feels stranded from her roots in Philadelphia, New York and Hollywood and rejected by the principality’s aristocrats and commoners. REVIEW: The Real Scandal Around Grace of Monaco: It's Not Very Good 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z He would play Pierre, an awkward aristocrat with an unhappy marriage and a propensity for philosophizing. Race, Money and Broadway: How ‘Great Comet’ Burned Out 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z They lost themselves in the story of a nation divided by war, its defeated cities reduced to smolder and ruins, its humbled aristocrats reduced to starvation. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z In one gallery, he added a virtual dining table, with porcelain and silver tableware, to offer a glimpse into the lives of 18th century French aristocrats. Detroit Institute of Arts' New Gallery: Islamic Works 2010-03-09T00:45:00Z And, most important, the origins of Marx's lifelong disgust for the "society of orders", the authoritarian and absolutist monarchies of pre-revolutionary Germany peopled with aristocrats, bureaucrats and military officers. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z The result is an embellished land of Christian saints, biblical episodes, Portuguese kings, historical glories, pastoral idylls, aristocrats at leisure, landscapes, seascapes, floral designs and, above all, geometric motifs. 12 Treasures of Europe 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z There was, of course, a time when such portraits were the stuff of statesmen and aristocrats, and were rendered in canvas and oil. Glamour Photos Replace Selfies for Personal Branding 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z “Crowd Shroud” is a mixed-up sedan chair — a hired conveyance once used to carry aristocrats through crowded London streets while sequestered from the rabble. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, Lincoln was the first chief executive not elected from the ranks of the agrarian aristocrats who founded the republic. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z A takeoff of 1975’s Grey Gardens, about two reclusive aristocrats living in poverty in a crumbling mansion, Sandy Passage is a shade broader than most other episodes. Documentary Now! Why you should make this the next TV show you watch 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In his novel “The Baron in the Trees,” Italo Calvino writes of a young Ligurian aristocrat who, fed up with the world around him, climbs a tree and decides never to come down. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z Silver furniture was the most obvious demonstration of wealth, “as not many aristocrats could commission such an extravagance,” he said. Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Gradually, the cultivated former aristocrat with the dazzling gift for language, who swings through the pages of the books, morphed into the pidgin-speaking primitive screen idol of "Me Tarzan, you Jane". Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z Even the most refined aristocrat of antiquity would have been told nursery stories by his first attendants, who were illiterate slaves and peasants. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Frank, the lifelong politician, played a game to be reckoned with; Claire, a lifelong aristocrat, was sent along afterwards to soften the blow. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat born in 1769, is one of the few almost entirely admirable men of his age: a scientist, an explorer, a humanitarian and an environmentalist avant la lettre. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z For English aristocrats in the 17th and 18th centuries, a roomful of Gibbons’s high-relief paneling was a status symbol. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z There also is the growing fascination with an elite group of women who have more occasions than most to wear hats: young aristocrats, royals and posh socialites. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z Chastain last appeared on Broadway a decade ago, when she starred in “The Heiress” as Catherine Sloper, a dowdy, awkward aristocrat. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “She was an aristocrat and fantastic personality who had scandalous affairs with all sorts of people and married a sheikh,” said Steve Barron, who directed five episodes and helped develop story lines. In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Yes, you are surrounded by the Seventh Arrondissement homes of Parisian aristocrats. | Under the Spell of Old Restaurants 2013-12-07T00:32:45Z The book tells of the rise of Indonesian nationalism and the political awakening of its people, told from the perspective of a Javanese aristocrat. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Angus’s real name is Francis Dempsey, however, and he is neither an aristocrat nor even a Scotsman; he is an impetuous Irish jailbird with a bagful of cash swiped from the Irish Republican Army. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z But the role of Gabriele Adorno, the hotheaded aristocrat who loves Maria, suits him, and he sang with ardor and big, throbbing top notes. 2010-01-20T05:02:00Z While there, she met and married a Spanish aristocrat, making her the Countess of Romanones. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Blue-penciling completely altered the characters of the unsavory aristocrats at the center of “The Hotel Child,” by deleting references to their drinking, drug taking and anti-Semitism. ArtsBeat: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Uncut, in a New Edition of Short Stories 2014-05-01T20:28:34Z There's more than a hint of noir to a world full of crooked cops, rotten aristocrats and young blonde angels destined to become the "sweetest, most dangerous and mortal enemy". Summer readings: Captain Alatriste by Arturo P?rez-Reverte 2011-08-11T10:12:25Z How often do pretend aristocrats get to mix with real royalty, after all? Envelope Screening: That time when Kate Middleton visited 'Downton Abbey' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z When Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers meet, she’s hard-bitten and he’s a sleek aristocrat, or vice versa, and through that magic comes an amazing dance. Duos of 'Genius': A. Scott Berg and John Logan, Colin Firth and Jude Law, Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z This was the reason that dancing was so coveted by aristocrats of that era: Effortless mastery of one’s actions, then as now, is a rare and wonderful thing. Big Dance Theater’s small works and major impression 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z As a wealthy businessman, not a landed aristocrat, McLellan represented a changing social and political order. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He’s a flamboyant snob and a fierce cynic, a cash-poor Southern aristocrat who carries on in the college’s blind spot. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He vilifies a political foe in “Hamlet,” and stages “Richard III” to win the crowd’s support for rebellious aristocrats. Op-Ed Contributor: Hollywood Dishonors the Bard 2011-10-17T04:18:07Z “The Whig Club” is basically a scandal sheet in volume form about the Whigs—i.e., liberal aristocrats—of the period and what they got up to. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Benjamin is a successful financier, and Helen is the daughter of aristocrats. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He met entomologists, polymaths, political scientists, shepherds and aristocrats. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Mr. Firth’s portrayal of a buttoned-up aristocrat who is literally twitching in his skin, is a tour de force of body language concentrated on the eyes and mouth. The Oscars: The Prince and the Uncommon Commoner 2010-12-31T18:57:13Z The word shares a root with restaurant, a term that goes back to pre-revolutionary France, when aristocrats made a show of their delicate constitutions by sipping health-giving bouillons in public dining rooms. The Odeon’s Not-So-Bright Lights Still Beckon 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Both movies ridicule aristocrats who are underfed yet over-sated: people for whom nothing is ever enough. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z “Serenade to Life” quotes from Rautavaara’s 1991 opera “The House of the Sun,” a tragicomedy about two Russian aristocrats who die in exile, clinging to dreams of past grandeur. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “I had an impression that he was this French aristocrat who really got America,” he said. Peter Carey, Australian at Home in New York 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z Amid breathtaking big-peak scenery, he goes bull-racing with a Pakistani aristocrat, visits a street dentist in Peshawar and meets a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who tells him that his chi is weak. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z As a young actor, he came to wide notice as Charles Haslemere, the charming, caddish aristocrat in the BBC series “The Duchess of Duke Street.” Christopher Cazenove, Suave British Actor, Dies at 66 2010-04-09T04:01:00Z Dance isn’t a democracy, and Ms. Mearns, a native of South Carolina, is one of its casually spellbinding aristocrats. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “I was the only one using color!” she recalled last week in the Upper East Side town house she shares with her husband, Nuno Brandolini d’Adda, an Italian aristocrat and investment banker. Possessed: Muriel Brandolini?s Love of Jewelry - Possessed 2011-09-23T22:28:23Z The Great Gatsby chronicles the young, midwestern Carraway's entanglements with a wealthy circle of hedonistic east coast aristocrats, including the titular Jay Gatsby, the host of wild and lavish New York parties. The Great Gatsby to open Cannes 2013 2013-03-12T10:35:43Z Gottfried went on to win back the crowd by delivering a stunning version of the classic "aristocrats" gag -- and Frank Rich later called the performance, 9/11 bit and all, "greatest dirty joke ever told." Sympathy for Gilbert Gottfried 2011-03-15T19:55:00Z He lived the life of an aristocrat, with a Swiss chalet, a Fifth Avenue apartment and an estate in Upstate New York. How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Horses contend with trains; aristocrats sit for portraits even as Madame Curie takes pictures with X-rays. Review | A med student gets a crash course in battle wounds and PTSD in ‘The Winter Soldier’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But here it’s the Irish characters who are more finely drawn than the fading aristocrats. An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The thing is, it’s one hell of a theme: the villainous aristocrat who sees into the true nature of things, and is willing to let you into the secret. Remembering Christopher Lee: From Dracula to Saruman, he captured the erotic allure of decadence and the hidden nature of reality 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Those social exceptions, people whose qualities are piled high at the extremes of good and evil but are lacking in the center, in the ordinary qualities, are aristocrats. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Rather than presenting them as her own artworks, she describes them as depicting members of the UmuEze Amara, one of the oldest noble clans in Nigeria, and the Obafemi, minor aristocrats, merchants and ambassadors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Yes, in the sense that as early as 1945 this 1930s world, inhabited by eccentric aristocrats such as the outrageous Uncle Matthew and die-hard communists like Linda's second husband Christian, had vanished forever. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z This unusual book braids together the stories of a long-forgotten British aristocrat, the women in his orbit and an Italian villa where their lives intersected, along with pieces of Holroyd's own story. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z Article by Mary Allen Perry Chocolate Cake IV Chocolate Cake IV An aristocrat in the world of impressive cakes, this prize-winning creation is sure to garner rave reviews. 2010-02-08T16:40:00Z Some aristocrats, at least, were aware that their lifestyles and positions were indefensible. 'Former People:' the decline and fall of Russia's glittering aristocracy 2012-10-10T22:09:03Z But to Nicky Haslam, decorator to rock stars, aristocrats and oligarchs, the “Freud,” as he calls it, is just one of many flamboyant elements that make his new London flat look like no place else. T Magazine: The Importance of Being Nicky 2014-04-10T16:46:16Z All of his female designers were fashionable aristocrats, and their networks of high society friends may have appealed to him at least as much as their artistic abilities. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z Make your way around Natchez, Miss., and you get the sense that if some people ever got really close to living like European aristocrats in the United States, it happened there. Knowing Natchez by Its Dead 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z By the end of the 17th century, when Armenian power had flourished along new trade routes, an Italian aristocrat living in Constantinople received a gift: a panoramic map of the world of Armenian influence. Reverent Beauty: The Met’s Armenia Show Is One for the Ages 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s much harder to get rid of one of the aristocrats without killing them. Downton Abbey Season 5: Predicting The Body Count 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z France wasn’t just Paris and Versailles, or the bewigged and bejeweled aristocrats who orbited the palaces of Louis XV and Louis XVI. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Over the next decade, he traveled America and impersonated an aristocrat fallen on hard times after the war. The Artist Beneath the Art Forger 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But the nationalist Malays like to think it was the Malay aristocrat Raja Abdullah, and so Yap Ah Loy’s name has been virtually excised from textbooks. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z “I don’t care what perfumed aristocrat sits next to you in the throne room,” he says. “Game of Thrones” Season Finale: Women and Wildfire 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z In the casinos of Macau, the narrator of the novel “The Ballad of a Small Player,” by Lawrence Osborne, is known as Lord Doyle, a wealthy British aristocrat. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z No one with a smattering of musical knowledge will be surprised by this remark of Mozart's, made to the Viennese aristocrat and influential patron Gottfried van Swieten. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z “Really!,” a stuffy aristocrat might have said when she saw young people jitterbugging. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Really?’ Pops Up Everywhere on Television 2012-10-01T22:17:08Z Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle was born in the wealthy Paris suburbs to an American mother and a French aristocrat father; a few years later the family moved to New York. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z In his state, machine politics has replaced the illusory rectitude of old boy aristocrats, but Willie is neither an aristocrat nor a machine pol; he’s a solo act. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The dramatis personae include landed aristocrats, their bourgeois neighbors, peasants and servants. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z He spoke of helping his father load them onto a truck as Soviet troops approached Dresden and of moving them first to a nearby farm, then to the castle of an aristocrat in southern Germany. German art hoarder denies paintings stolen, wants them back 2013-11-17T14:54:33Z And, in the 16th century, when European aristocrats adopted the heels favoured by Catherine de Medici, they were outraged when commoners began to wear them too. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z Elsewhere in Paris, parks let commoners luxuriate like aristocrats: The city’s grandest park, Tuileries Garden, was once the private property of kings and queens. Finding urban getaways in Europe’s top cities 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Estimates are mostly under $1,000 for batches of books that cover paintings, bronzes, ceramics and stone and jade carvings belonging to Chinese emperors and European and American aristocrats. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z This was a rare moment for "Game of Thrones," in that this bit of dialogue hinted at deeply-buried class divisions between manual laborers and aristocrats in the GoT universe. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z He presents himself as “a democrat beyond the walls of the academy and an aristocrat within them.” Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Chivalry was not only a code of behaviour but a style honed both on the battlefield and in impressive residences, and it was apparent by the 11th century in the courts of northern French aristocrats. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Among her Blackfriars neighbors were aristocrats like Elizabeth, including the patron of Shakespeare’s acting company, Lord Hunsdon. Brush with the Bard is backdrop for story of powerful early modern woman 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z I met d’Ormesson when I lived in Paris — the perfect example of a French aristocrat. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The celebrated decorator Alberto Pinto, whose clientele included American financiers, European aristocrats, and Middle Eastern royalty, was as famed for his opulence as for his exacting standards. Step Inside Linda Pinto's Luxurious Parisian Apartment 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z This preening young aristocrat is so blatantly shallow, selfish and manipulative that he doesn’t seem to warrant a tumble much less a mortal sacrifice. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z All of which, said Julian Fellowes, the “Downton Abbey” creator and writer, makes it no different from any other season of this series about British aristocrats and their household staff. Another Helping of ‘Downton,’ M’Lord? 2014-02-24T03:30:00Z “Prior to that it was only royalty or aristocrats who had them, and most were made for tombs.” Inside Art: Sculpture as Portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011-12-15T21:41:44Z In 1994, the family matriarch — an aristocrat romance novelist named Lady Strange — sold it back to Fort Niagara to fund a new roof for her castle. Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Alongside Apollo and Athena came images of craftsmen, poets and sulky aristocrats, in all their fleshy, paunchy and debauched glory. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z A Prologue shows the manic backstage preparations for the presentation of a high-flown opera and a bawdy comedy in the home of an aristocrat. Music Review: Mozart, Strauss and Friends, an Austrian Seasonal Tradition 2012-08-01T21:53:15Z Loxford festers under the feudal control of Lady Billows, an aristocrat with a Thatcherite flair for ensuring the village seniors bow to her rampant conservatism. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z Bond, especially Connery’s Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat’s tastes — just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Igor Stravinsky offered a letter of recommendation for “this high-minded musician, this aristocrat among conductors.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He offers the definition of an aristocrat as someone who can get away with crime—or can forgive crime—on the basis of emotions and gestures that have an extraordinary aesthetic power. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It's just a particular formation of muscle groups, a default position for the face, a counterweight to those dark, narrow, strangely dead eyes -- the eyes of an ancient, decadent aristocrat. How Charlie Sheen remains a TV superstar 2011-01-31T13:32:00Z On the way, you’ll pass some imposing villas, mostly built by local aristocrats in the beginning of the 19th century. Lake Bled: Exploring Slovenia’s romantic alpine retreat 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The original title of a 1778 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin only referred to the white British aristocrat Lady Elizabeth. Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “Like lots of British producers, I’ve worked on a lot of things with aristocrats and servants,” he said. ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a promising title given that Sigmund Freud treated a patient whom he called the Wolf Man, a constipated Russian aristocrat who dreamed of white wolves. Review: In ‘Therapy for a Vampire,’ the Count Really Wants to Change 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z She was married to an aristocrat and lived in a big country house. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z "You are a Spanish aristocrat, while I am only a working-class girl." Digested read: In the Name of Love by Katie Price 2012-06-24T18:30:01Z The top players would warm up with the “rabbits”, as they referred to us – like aristocrats talking to gamekeepers – while the middle-ranking players stuck to each other, like the middle classes. Flirting with Ava Gardner | Taki 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z She met her husband at a dinner party in 1996, when she was still grieving the death of her father, and Lord Carnarvon was recovering from the end of his first marriage to another aristocrat. Trying to Turn a Castle Into a Cash Register 2013-05-24T21:19:52Z As a boy, Eisenheim forms a deep bond with Sophie, the daughter of an aristocrat, but is torn away from her when their friendship is discovered. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘My Dinner with Hervé’ and ‘The Illusionist’ 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z These “Henry V” characters — swaggering English soldiers, conceited French aristocrats and even the clergy — are irresistible, capering clowns, rarely far from fisticuffs or mayhem. Review | Faction of Fools and WSC Avant Bard offer zany Shakespeare 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z As was often the case before, this side of the story is earthier and livelier than the aristocrat side of things. Class-system melodrama as comfort food 2011-04-08T15:31:00Z Or if there must be a skeleton, said one Enlightenment aristocrat designing his tomb, let it be veiled. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z “He could play the sympathetic lawyer, the kind aristocrat, the saintly husband, the comforting doctor, or the good lover,” Mr. Furst writes, “the knight not the gigolo.” Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z In this glittering series opener, a scorned aristocrat assembles a talented team of outsiders to pull off an epic, high-stakes heist on the eve of the World’s Fair in an alternate, fantastical Paris. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The European press described the Ullenses as friendly with European aristocrats like Prince Charles and Belgium’s king and queen. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z And as for the rise of the romance—with its larger-than-life passions, revolutionary aristocrats, and “nihilistic and untamable” occurrences—maybe we’re living in a romantic age. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Made on commission for a British aristocrat, it pictures a complicatedly structured white wooden bridge crossing a placid river under a lively, partly cloudy sky. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z Postwar Britain wasn't doing too well in general, facing high unemployment and other economic ills, but the phenomenon of aristocrats selling country estates would continue in the decades to come. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Between 1870 and 1914, hundreds of cosseted young American women moved to Europe and turned control of their fortunes over to the impoverished British aristocrats they married. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It originally belonged to a newly rich Dutchman, then passed through the hands of Cardinal Mazarin of France and a few British aristocrats. Antiques: Discoveries in the Past Year’s Auctions 2013-12-26T18:37:39Z I explained at some length what was known about Shakespeare as a co-author, and how the culture of playwriting at the time precluded collaborations between professional dramatists and aristocrats like Oxford. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The film covers all of the important details of Washington's life as it follows him from his early years as an ambitious British military officer and plantation aristocrat through his leadership in the Revolutionary War. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z In 1728 the 16-year-old Rousseau arrived on the slender street that bears his name and became the ward of one Madame de Warens, an aristocrat 12 years his senior. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z You get the gods, the courts, the aristocrats, and, in the case of “Poppea,” you get Nero’s imperial court. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z In a short time, the more ruthless and intelligent creatures – naturally enough the pigs – have the other animals under their dictatorship and are living like aristocrats. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Colorado seems an unlikely locale for a Russian-born aristocrat to find a spiritual home — some 10 time zones from his birthplace in St. Petersburg. Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Herein lies the Achilles’ heel of the film “Marguerite,” in which Catherine Frot beautifully and movingly plays the unhappy aristocrat Marguerite Dumont, who takes refuge from an unhappy marriage in a quasi-dream world of music. The art of bad singing: A legacy lives on 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Hijacking — or appropriating, to use the art world-approved term — the format of old master altarpieces and three-quarter-length portraits, he likened the notorious opulence of successful hip-hop artists to that of European aristocrats. Art Review: The Diaspora Is Remixed 2012-03-22T22:53:15Z Early on, Cartier also, crucially, developed a reputation as an honest and reliable dealer when droves of aristocrats were hocking their jewels following the Franco-Prussian War. Can’t Afford a Shopping Spree at Cartier? This Book Is the Next Best Thing 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z This fact-based story of a crippled aristocrat and his African therapist has earned $410.6 million worldwide, which would place it 13th on the global list if it hadn’t opened in France in 2011. 2012 Turnaround: The Avengers Brings People Back to the Movies 2013-01-03T17:21:00Z But in the main, aristocrats, are "fine upstanding" men with long "patrician" noses. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z The story spans 70 years, as the embroiderers’ fates diverge: Ann is courted by an aristocrat; Miriam befriends a charmingly frumpy magazine editor and begins to design tapestries that open a window on her past. Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Political ideology changed in favour of more functionalist buildings and the architects were condemned as "elitists" and "cultural aristocrats". Can Foster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? 2012-11-25T00:05:43Z These works were often sold to aristocrats traveling through Italy to complete their classical education with a so-called Grand Tour. Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Morris & Co's main clients were the liberal aesthetic aristocrats and the forward thinking industrial tycoons. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z The game's aristocrats are absent, but the tennis should be nonetheless compelling, especially in the women's draw, in which 20 of the world's top 50 will be on show. TV highlights: 29/4/2013 2013-04-29T06:00:07Z Town houses of nobles and aristocrats who attended the king’s Paris court, these extravagant stone mansions were the urban alternative to the countryside châteaux. In Transit Blog: Paris Exhibit Shows How the Other Half Lived 2011-10-28T10:00:22Z Today’s aristocrats are likely to be Russian oligarchs or Malaysian royals. Naples, a Haven of Hand Work 2014-04-21T06:03:10Z Born in 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, Clift was raised like an aristocrat, with a private tutor and frequent trips to Europe. Montgomery Clift: the untold story of Hollywood's misunderstood star 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He grew up in the rarefied atmosphere of Quincy, Mass., where the Adams family were as close to aristocrats as the Republic allowed. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z After their coup failed, this young aristocrat fled Caracas, only escaping the police by traveling into the distant, unexplored territories of Guyana. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Republican opponents of the Irish government burn the homes of aristocrats as the War of Independence escalates. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Burt Lancaster gives a masterly performance as the courtly Don Fabrizio Salina, a Sicilian aristocrat all too aware of his own mortality and that of his class as Garibaldi’s republic takes shape in the 1860s. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z But Sitwell is not the most eccentric female aristocrat to have graced history. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Nicholas and Alexandra arrive at a party full of guffawing aristocrats, all of whom are ignoring the oppressed proletariat and practically guzzling Fabergé eggs. Nicholas and Alexandra: mashing up history can't make this pair lovable 2013-06-14T09:04:00Z Simulated candles in rock crystal chandeliers flicker over pre-French Revolution gilded armchairs clustered as if in readiness for aristocrats’ whispered anxieties. Antiques: A London Apartment Done Up in French 2010-04-22T22:32:00Z Never mind that most of us will find little practical use for information on quantum mechanics, the military stratagems of World War II or the private lives of British aristocrats. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Finlay followed the example of aristocrats such as Burlington in creating a landscape saturated with meaning. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z Germans view their own aristocrats skeptically, although many ardently follow the royal houses of their European neighbors. German royals marry with pomp 2011-08-27T12:29:10Z A clever take on the classic toile-de-jouy pattern, it floats tiny porcelain sculptural tableaus on a turquoise wall and incorporates elves and Barbies in lieu of frolicking aristocrats. Art Review: Pavilion of Art and Design at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-11-10T23:44:24Z The Nordics, he argued, were “a race of soldiers, sailors, adventurers, and explorers, but above all, of rulers, organizers, and aristocrats.” Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Rich brewers and cloth traders could have themselves painted on horseback, a pose once reserved for kings and aristocrats. Review: Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "His secret alliances with the church, aristocrats, intellectuals and the press were the foundation of his dictatorship," it tells us. Reel history | In the Time of the Butterflies: feisty but it doesn't really fly 2010-03-18T09:30:00Z She was a natural aristocrat, waiting to blossom. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Familiar Faces in Two Dimensions 2013-01-10T18:24:54Z Though Germans and the war are never mentioned, the film’s villain — an aristocrat with a penchant for taking target practice in a crowd — easily stands in for unwanted overlords. The Week Ahead 2012-03-03T22:06:02Z Revenge on the scheming aristocrats who brought down his mentor, Cardinal Wolsey. 'Bring Up the Bodies' a wonderful, terrible sequel to 'Wolf Hall' 2012-05-04T03:31:52Z Her Madrid workshop supplied royal families and aristocrats with saints, angels and martyrs, and she carved each clay detail of jewelry and embroidered billowing robes. Antiques: Lumière Autochromes and Other Early Color Photos 2013-01-04T00:46:45Z She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The fish-out-of-water delights of “Coming to America” could hardly be repeated, but that film’s comic view of America from the perspective of a naïve African aristocrat could have used a more energetic updating. ‘Coming 2 America’ Review: Comedic Royalty 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In the early 20th century Baroness Orczy created Sir Percy Blakeney, the British aristocrat who, as that intrepid master of disguise the Scarlet Pimpernel, whisked noble folk away from the guillotine during the French revolution. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece, narrated from beyond the grave by a feckless, pretentious, impossibly winning aristocrat. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The painter John Singer Sargent has sometimes been dismissed as an artist of flattery and frivolity — a portraitist-for-hire who catered to the vanities of his elite subjects, whether they were British aristocrats or Boston Brahmins. John Singer Sargent, À La Mode 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Destined for a longer life were the Reynolds portraits of actors and aristocrats that accompanied this inert artifact. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z "Learned aristocrats at the time would have known all this straight away; it is revealing itself as a pen name," he said. Shakespeare identity debate reignited with TV challenge 2013-07-04T16:26:41Z In the person of Aaron Burr, the show poses the dilemma of the political aristocrat. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Their son Oscar revered both parents as self-made aristocrats. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Through the windows I thought I could see wan aristocrats I might know, but there was no stopping. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z A walking rejection of the claim that America has no class system, Vidal had the manner of an aristocrat. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z Postwar Britain wasn't doing too well in general, facing high unemployment and other economic ills, but the phenomenon of aristocrats selling country estates would continue in the decades to come. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Another small gallery is devoted to van Dyck’s Iconographie, an extended collection of prints he instigated, documenting his social and intellectual circle, along with prominent political and military leaders and aristocrats. At the Frick, clothes do make the man, and the woman 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z By year’s end, the museum’s gilded French salon from the 1730s will be redone to look as if aristocrats were playing cards there and partaking in coffee and chocolate by candlelight. The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Anyway, before Margaret Thatcher flew into power as a Tory superhero, there was even talk of an aristocrat plot to overthrow the Labour Party by military coup. London Theater Journal: The Despot Behind a Desk 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The plays of Shakespeare, understood as the works of an aristocrat, offered Looney a guide for a wished-for restoration of a repressive feudal regime, in which everyone knew his or her place. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z She is a peroxided Clytemnestra of a character – trashy, American and emphatically nothing like the cut-glass-accented aristocrats she is most famous for playing. Nicolas Winding Refn says he made Only God Forgives 'like a pornographer' 2013-05-22T12:18:43Z But he's an aristocrat in his own right - an earl - a family title which dates back to the 17th century. Princess Diana's brother engaged to a Canadian 2011-02-15T13:57:08Z In the eastern fields of Stepney, close to Whitechapel station, she finds aristocrats and landed gentry who desired open fields and country estates yet enjoyed proximity to the City. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Strindberg’s original characters, a willful young aristocrat and her father’s valet, have been reimagined as the daughter of an affluent Boer farmer and his favorite black servant in contemporary Karoo, South Africa. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The painting of a 17th-century Dutch aristocrat hangs in the west wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Patrick, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the TV adaptation, is a tortured toff — abuse victim, drug addict, fading aristocrat — but also an arch observer of his circle, which happens to be the Diana-era Tatler set. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z From there, it morphed into the accessory of choice for 18th-century French aristocrats who liked to party dressed as shepherds and poor farmers. A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In 1933, drawn by his love of Wagner, he took flight for Germany, where he moved from castle to castle as the guest of aristocrats deeply implicated in the rise of national socialism. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z It was later acquired by an English aristocrat in the late 1770s. 'Earlier Mona Lisa' goes on display 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In the past few years we have seen her as a hysterical psychiatric patient in A Dangerous Method and a doomed, tragic aristocrat in Anna Karenina. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In the book’s first paragraph, Maurer recognizes the con man as the “aristocrat” of grifters: he must use the full extent of his talent and ingenuity, and he plays for extremely high stakes. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The race began after a local aristocrat banned bullfighting in 1590. Blood and passion fuel Siena's street horse race 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Some images portraying her as a greedy aristocrat and others a noble victim. Marie Antoinette — extravagant French queen has long been a symbol of female excess 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Later, he inspired the character of Sun Yuin-loong in Hahn’s book “Steps of the Sun,” a lightly fictionalized account of an American woman’s experiences as the concubine of an opium-smoking Chinese aristocrat. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The snobs and arrivistes of her England are remorselessly skewered; every aristocrat is a buffoon or a monster. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z In that hothouse of talent, awash in rich kids and titled aristocrats, students from lesser backgrounds enjoy a perverse cachet. ‘Black Chalk’ review: A school game turns deadly 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, families like the Astors and the Vanderbilts spent years or even decades designing estates to impress European aristocrats. Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America? 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z He is one of the most powerful aristocrats in Britain and is desperately unhappy about it. Best new romance novels for December While, historically speaking, being an English aristocrat helped ensure you were put in the eccentric box rather than a mental asylum, it has never been a mandatory requirement for attaining eccentric status. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Lemoine’s subject, though, is more likely a young Bengali man named Zamor, who served before the revolution as the page of Madame du Barry, one of the most fashionable aristocrats in Versailles. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Her stepfather was an English aristocrat, and I was intrigued by the dissonance between her free spirit and the stuffy world of earls and dukes. Author, author: Richard Mason 2011-03-12T00:06:54Z He was the first major composer who was not a servant, either of an aristocrat, or of the Church. Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel - 23 June 2012-06-22T08:52:00Z So he bets his cohort Pickering that with six months of training, she could pass as an aristocrat. A well-spoken, well-dressed 'Pygmalion' 2011-08-25T18:19:05Z Novels have always belonged to aristocrats of time; not, I say, merely to aristocrats, although they have been disproportionately represented, but to those subjects who have freedom of choice about how to act within time. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z It’s set in 1787, and Don Giovanni is not a young libertine but an aged aristocrat living his last 24 hours at a time of social confrontation. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z The old Etonian seemed happy to become typecast playing aristocrats. Christopher Cazenove obituary 2010-04-08T00:19:00Z The countertenor Iestyn Davies has made his career as a Handelian, but in “The Exterminating Angel” he plays an arrogant, idle aristocrat. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Among the professional models there were many Russian aristocrats, exiled in Paris, who were "much in demand and well paid". Mannequin, Le Corps de la Mode (Models, the Body of Fashion) - review 2012-07-31T12:59:00Z A Rare Jade Show Chinese aristocrats during the Bronze Age took their jade carvings to the grave. Antiques: Restoring F.D.R?s Harvard Dorm, and a Rare Jade Show 2010-03-12T05:29:00Z For another thing the people in this landscape are not legendary beings or picnicking aristocrats but shepherds and farmworkers. The people's pastoral: John Constable's The Cornfield 2012-09-28T12:09:19Z Beneath all the seigneurial duty and damask, this British series about aristocrats and their servants is at heart as American as Apple computers or the Magic Kingdom. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z Beijing and New York are both staging "The Cherry Orchard", Chekhov's final play, which describes the lives of a group of aristocrats in the wake of the serfs' liberation. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Tolstoy, in spite of the fact that he was an aristocrat, a Russian count, was very democratic and open. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z A twenty-five-year-old was accused of posing as an aristocrat explorer and scamming luxury tourists out of nearly seven hundred thousand dollars. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Star Wars lore fudges and backtracks over all this stuff, but the upshot is it’s now basically a saga about aristocrats who call themselves “rebels”. The Last Jedi: can Star Wars’ Rey break Hollywood’s obsession with privilege? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The Oscar nominees for this year’s Best Costume Design award represent a diverse bunch of films populated with princesses, witches, hotel porters and aristocrats. Go Inside the London Costume Shop Oscar-Winning Designers Rely On 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Although the cheerfully crass Vanda appears wildly unsuited for the part of a 19th-century aristocrat, she persuades a reluctant Thomas to hear her out. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Venus in Fur’ at the George Street Playhouse, in New Brunswick 2013-05-11T00:21:28Z Because of his closeness with the Russian-born Balanchine, Mr. Mitchell refers to himself as an African-American man raised like an old Russian aristocrat. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Some years ago, I heard a fragmentary story about an exiled French aristocrat, who, centuries ago, fathered numerous children with tribal women all around the Indian Ocean, and I was immediately captivated. Andrea Lee on Cross-Cultural Encounters 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson, the shopaholic Virginia aristocrat, would confide that John Adams showed a certain “want of taste.” David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z She was a lavish society hostess but, with little money, she soon began affairs with numerous wealthy aristocrats — with her husband's blessing — to fund their lifestyle. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The formal dancing staged for the aristocrats’ pleasure is similarly symmetrical and geometrical—even as, filmed from a high angle, it foreshadows the abstract inventions of Busby Berkeley. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s almost as much like the tragedies of ancient Greece as it is like Shakespeare, or perhaps grand opera, even though the characters belong to another social stratum, altogether, from the usual aristocrats of Verdi. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z In short, rockers forced to become aristocrats should call the establishment's bluff and become aristocrats with an obscene gusto. Unseen Swells: Why rock stars should become aristocrats 2010-06-16T16:08:00Z The spangled boutiques inhabit a phalanx of regal hôtels particuliers where Renaissance aristocrats held salons. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In this show, Charles’s father is an arrogant, one-dimensional aristocrat who can hardly wait to return to a life of luxury. Review: ‘Young Charles Dickens’ Musically Mixes Fact and Fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z In this sly story, an aristocrat spends 30 years under house arrest in a Moscow hotel while the Soviet empire rises around him. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It was led by an Italian aristocrat, the Duke of Abruzzi, who named the highest point after Queen Margherita of Italy. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Playing 18th century French aristocrats who engage in games of sexual one-upmanship, the two actors don't spare words when describing the depravity of their characters. Janet McTeer and Dominic West of stage-to-cinema 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' revival talk cruelty 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z New Zealand will be pleased just to hang on against holders Italy, while Brazil v Ivory Coast looks to be the most intriguing clash – Africa rising against the samba aristocrats. Doctor Who 2010-06-19T05:45:00Z A draftsman, calligrapher, magician and musician, he traveled all over Northern Europe to entertain kings and aristocrats as well as hoi polloi with amazing feats of physical dexterity. Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A real aristocrat is at home whether the damask is fraying or fresh. T Magazine: Ghosts of the Hudson Valley 2012-12-19T21:46:44Z More internet sleuthing will show that the actress also comes from a long line of European aristocrats and lords. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z As well as being a former aristocrat, Rostov is also a poet. Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z His obsession was sparked by David Herbert, an aristocrat and close friend in Tangier. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Great art used to be reserved for monarchs, aristocrats and the church. Perspective | So you’re stuck at home. Here’s a guide to finding great art while in isolation. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The drama, about dignified aristocrats and their servants, made its U.S. debut on PBS in 2011 and is largely credited with reigniting American fascination with British culture. 'Downton Abbey' to end run after sixth season 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Just as Tocqueville predicted, aristocrats like the Roosevelts and Stimsons managed to transfer their allegiance from class to country, successfully yoking their personal ambition to larger public causes. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Women played Simon and Judas; a mix of the school’s nerd and jock squads Caiaphas and his cabal; and the son of a French expat aristocrat sang Pilate. What You Remember About ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The Count explains that he is wooing her in the guise of a poor student, "Lindoro," because he wants to be loved for himself and not as an aristocrat. The plot of 'The Barber of Seville' 2011-01-07T19:26:27Z He will now tackle Chekhov’s last play, from 1904, which follows a struggling Russian aristocrat returning to her family estate. Roundabout Adds Chekhov (by Way of Karam) and Bartlett to Next Season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. Quai d'Orsay's comic-book hero tickles French fancy 2011-01-28T18:38:30Z “In ‘Sunny Afternoon’ I wanted to know who this broken-down aristocrat was, and I became him. Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z But these were anomalies: most of the design in this period was backward-looking, as aristocrats and nouveaux-riches seeking stability and refuge embarked on a frenzy of castle restorations in a bid to “domesticate the past”. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Through this lens, will it ever be possible to see the comings and goings of a few British aristocrats and their servants, their lives and their love affairs, in the same way again? ArtsBeat: On ‘Downton Abbey’: the First Black Character Makes an Appearance 2014-01-20T13:31:44Z Selfish capitalists and aristocrats care nothing for the poor. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z Buckley and Vidal were remarkable characters, at once bona fide intellectuals, true-blue aristocrats and knowing caricatures of those very types. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z That he is a rich aristocrat who dresses in jeans and says he rocks to AC/DC has only enhanced his youthful popularity. Abroad: In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis 2011-03-14T16:58:11Z But “Intouchables” has also been criticized for its idealistic vision of a world without social gaps, where an aristocrat can befriend an ex-con. ?Intouchables? Is a Magnet for French Moviegoers 2011-12-07T16:27:43Z But in Italy, serene yet impressive buildings form part of an estate system owned by aristocrats and farmed by sharecroppers. Ferruccio Ferragamo 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z Mbatha-Raw, whose fact-based role in Belle saw her play a Caribbean slave's daughter raised as an aristocrat in 18th Century England, said she was "delighted... to be recognised for a growing body of work". O'Connell up for rising star Bafta 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Before mass production and mass consumption, we lived in age of patronage, when master-craftsmen wrought chandeliers and armoires for masters of the universe – then it was aristocrats, today it's hedge fund managers. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z This one, at first glance, couldn’t be more different, since its protagonist is a 19th-century aristocrat. Highlights, From the Intimate to the Political, in a Midwinter Film Series 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Given the name Angelo, he grows up among aristocrats who treat him not as a servant but as a curio and a symbol of their own benevolence. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The necklace that she is given by the aristocrat Bathilde descends below her hips; it’s ludicrous to think that it has been worn while hunting. Dance Review: Bolshoi’s ‘Giselle,’ Geared to Virtuosity and a Vocal Audience 2014-04-06T21:59:32Z “I’m not an aristocrat — I’m just a cowboy!” The Art of Drinking? Right This Way, S’il Vous Plaît. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z He quoted Solange’s line “My jet of spit is my spray of diamonds” to illustrate how Genet’s characters ruthlessly and imaginatively try to transform themselves from nobodies into aristocrats. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z His heritage may also put a damper on her relationship with the Russian aristocrats in York, who don't seem too fond of her soon-to-be new beau. 'Downton Abbey' recap: Cocktails and cuckoldry 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Icy doesn't begin to describe the chill that sets in when this caricature of a cold English aristocrat appears in any scene, her eyes glinting with cruelty. 'Cat Run' snips off appendages and other comic ploys 2011-04-02T00:09:36Z Key aristocrats and their original actors are back, including the Crawleys, of course. Did you lose Downton Abbey in the British fog? Catch up here 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Locke’s mother, Mary, provided a tenuously middle-class life for Alain with her salary as a teacher, and raised her son to play the aristocrat from the time he was young. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The three find new money, fading aristocrats, unreformed Nazis and a Vienna of picturesque squares and rival powers. The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal – review 2013-03-29T17:51:01Z At the end of the book’s opening chapter, she watches him thronged by marriage-minded British aristocrats, waves her drink at one of them and declares, “Well, nobody has anything to fear from me.” Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Near us, in the square next to the Royal Palace, the Stockholm Bloodbath took place in 1520, when about 100 aristocrats were executed. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Here, he talks to us about the fashion habits of 19th-century British aristocrats, the pleasures of sewing and why the classics aren’t as simple as they look. | A.P.C.'s New Digs 2011-02-04T20:15:36Z And since most of his subjects were actually disenfranchised black and brown youths — that is, hip-hop fans rather than stars — he effectively transformed his subjects into aristocrats, at least in the world of the picture. Art Review: The Diaspora Is Remixed 2012-03-22T22:53:15Z It soon becomes clear that these aristocrats are unable to leave the party. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z If you missed this show, which includes portraits of aristocrats and mythological narratives, at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, this may be your last chance. Mark These Dates: A Wave of Art Is Coming Your Way 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The first, says Hartling, is experienced by elites, in the way aristocrats would defend their honour in duels. Nadine Dorries and the power of humiliation 2012-11-11T20:30:00Z Schweitzer, a pianist and former music critic for The New York Times, begins in 1607 in the Ducal Palace of Mantua, where aristocrats assemble to hear the premiere of “Orpheus,” by Claudio Monteverdi. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The piece, a czarist box made by I. P. Khlebnikov, a Fabergé contemporary, depicted aristocrats feasting on a roasted swan. Battling to Keep Auction Sellers Anonymous 2013-02-03T21:14:16Z These days, their main function is to steer along the festivities, which consist of locals dressed as peasants, paupers and aristocrats – a nod to the village’s social history. 10 traditional winter festivals in Europe 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Unlike some of the self-made stars on our TV richlist, Downton Abbey's affluent aristocrat amassed his vast fortune by being born and then getting married. Six to watch: TV's rich list 2012-05-29T14:42:01Z Like the spoiled and glamorous aristocrats of “The Great Gatsby,” he careers through the lives of lesser mortals, without explanation, leaving others to clean up his mess. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z You pitied all those foreign countries that embraced revolution instead of allowing their aristocrats to know the joy of ducal dwarf fruit. TV review: Royal Upstairs Downstairs; Law & Order: UK 2011-03-07T22:00:01Z The white cast members played the aristocrats and lovers, for example, while the Black performers handled the fairies and mechanicals — comic entertainers, not romantic leads. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In 1947, upon Gertrude Stein’s suggestion, Paul settled in Tangier, a seedy port city where artists, pirates, picaros, philistines, homosexuals, lapsed aristocrats, real aristocrats, and paupers posing as kings had found refuge for centuries. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Wood, he says, writes like “an aristocrat who never really expected those below him to understand the function of the social order.” Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z People who populate paintings by the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau tend toward delicate aristocrats, sashaying through his dreamy, pastoral landscapes and refined soirees. Watteau in Wartime, and a Miami Showcase for Anselm Kiefer 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z British aristocrats would place ads seeking recluses to move into unheated huts on their estates. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z The effect is described in a 6th-century description of the building by Paul the Silentiary, an aristocrat and poet at the court of Justinian. How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia’s Sound Into a Studio 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z However, he became sickened by the spectacle of power-mad thugs triumphantly holding up by the hair the severed heads of the guillotined aristocrats, to the cheers of ravening crowds of bloodthirsty yeehaws with bad teeth. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Like Lokal, the group’s network of neighborhood pubs, the focus is on traditional Czech cuisine, but with earlier inspirations — specifically, the kitchens of 16th-century aristocrats. A Prague Restaurant Celebrates Classic Dishes With a Novel Approach 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Take the portrait of a young aristocrat hiding his hands, which grasp inside the cloak he pulls around his body. Bronze sculptures in 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty capture pivotal era 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z They are often used in intelligence tests, and their origins are pedagogical: The earliest wooden puzzles, from the 18th century, were dissected maps meant to teach geography to the children of aristocrats. Eye for art and artistry amid jigsaw's jumble 2010-12-10T02:15:00Z He had an aristocrat's bearing - tall, handsome and composed - and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Created in the 1920s by a Frenchman who claimed to be an aristocrat, the property was once owned by the writer Paul Bowles. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z They include an aristocrat’s son on a trans-Atlantic journey, a grieving composer and a writer visiting Earth from her interstellar colony while on her book tour. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z It was clear right away to me that this isn’t simply entertainment for princes or aristocrats, as one feels was the case for Haydn and Mozart, wonderful though their symphonies are. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z At first glance, Loewenstein, a prematurely middle-aged aristocrat who spoke with a slight German accent, seemed an unlikely partner for the Stones. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z They include his famous tuxedo-clad self-portrait, in which a solidly middle-class guy from Leipzig crafts himself as an imposing, urbane artistic aristocrat. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The costumes worn by the servants look much simpler than those worn by the aristocrats. Downton Abbey's Costume Designer on How to Dress Like an Edwardian 2012-02-19T21:00:25Z She’s nervous, and not just because Mona is almost old enough to be her own mother, while Roger is a comfortable aristocrat at the dinner table. “Mad Men” recap: “It’s been a gift to me, to know when to move on” 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Hailing from this period, a hunting treatise known as the “Livre de la Chasse” shows young aristocrats stalking wolves and taking instruction from a foppish trainer. Art Review: Medieval Style Files: Tailored Artistry 2011-05-26T22:25:13Z Traditionally, of course, it's Marie Antoinette, who must have had souls rattling round in her like distressed aristocrats in a tumbrel. TV review: Who Do You Think You Were 2010-09-03T21:31:00Z Behn rose from being of modest means to hobnobbing with aristocrats. 'Or,' at Seattle Rep: A romp through the Restoration era 2012-03-30T19:00:06Z Ms. Ono, born in 1933, was the eldest child of merchant aristocrats devoted to both Japanese and Western music. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He portrays Prince Siegfried, an aristocrat whose mother is anxious to see him married off, as if he knew there were something else out there for him but isn’t sure how to find it. Dance Review: Angel Corella in ‘Swan Lake,’ His Ballet Theater Farewell 2012-06-29T21:51:05Z Most international survey museums were built upon the existing collections of aristocrats or the donations of wealthy patrons. Art Review: The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory 2012-11-08T22:20:07Z These included a decree that aristocrats, who had previously been allowed to build up enormous debts without legal penalty, would henceforth be imprisoned for failing to pay back what they owed. A Royal Affair: one to remember 2012-07-06T08:53:50Z Playing parlor games, dancing the minuet, making snide comments — aristocrats sure do know how to party. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In those times, a reigning monarch was considered semi-divine; arrogant aristocrats were considered "betters"; and few could conceive of an alternative governing model. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z During this period, 25 percent of male aristocrats in the kingdom died violently, and some houses were entirely wiped out in a cycle of vengeance that came to break all the laws of warfare. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z As a teenager in the 1780s, she was passed around as a mistress among British aristocrats, and is perhaps most famous for running off to a London suburb with Adm. Antiques: Notes to Lady Hamilton, Who Drove Admiral Nelson Wild 2011-02-10T21:35:33Z Both by temperament and by birth he was an aristocrat. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z In the past, eccentric women tended to be aristocrats. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Those unhappy folks speaking English under an ornate proscenium are not really Russian aristocrats, after all. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course, what both daughters want is an emotional connection, and in true soap-opera form they find it with everyday men, below the station of the aristocrats who patronize them. Review: Rival Brothel Owners Square Off in Hulu’s ‘Harlots’ 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Alex proved adept at the skills expected of a young French aristocrat: especially fencing and horsemanship. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss – review 2012-09-28T21:55:05Z Fortunately for the actresses playing maids and cooks, it’s much easier for Buxton to create flattering costumes for them than the aristocrats upstairs. The Clothes of Downton Abbey 2012-02-17T16:04:55Z Some became paid servants, abolitionists, successful businessmen and even aristocrats. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Bordeaux producers, they thought, were aristocrats more interested in silk cravats than vineyard dirt. A Farmer’s Dozen From Bordeaux 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z She has delved into the genealogy of the deceased and their mourners, identifying cousins of Benjamin Franklin and assorted British aristocrats. Antiques: Mourning Jewelry, Pocket Watches, Jacob A. Holzer Sculpture 2012-09-21T05:20:20Z Among the hundreds of graves are those of Scottish writer Tobias Smollett, Irish aristocrat Margaret King – taught by Wollstonecraft and friend to her daughter, Mary Shelley – and the English merchant Robert Bateman. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z There are dramas of frustrated factory workers, diplomatic failures, female liberation, and anti-Semitism; musicals about Russian aristocrats, teen isolation, and the triumph of Canadian kindness over xenophobia. The Tony Nominations: War, Peace, and Bette Midler 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Well-paced and well-written, again by Raphael, it starred O'Toole as an aristocrat who plans to assassinate Hitler before war becomes inevitable. Clive Donner obituary 2010-09-07T17:44:00Z This is clear in the essay, which identifies the highbrow not as an aristocrat or even an artist, but rather as someone likely to work in the academy. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In the book, aristocrats, politicians, artists, writers and movie stars show up for cameos on the Riviera and then depart. Review | A look back at the elegant highs and the wartime lows of the French Riviera 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Nicholas, in the new Blackhat, is one of these underworld aristocrats. Review: Chris Hemsworth in 'Blackhat': Thor Takes Up Typing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In 1961, an American heir of Russian aristocrats, the Stroganoffs, stepped forward and claimed “Adam” and “Eve” as family property that the Soviet government had seized in the 1920s. Nazi-looted-art case against Norton Simon Museum set for 2016 trial 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z A porcelain goblet for Passover was painted in the 1880s by Vilmos Fischer, a Jewish aristocrat whose family owned Hungary’s renowned Herend ceramics factory. Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Both were outsiders: Mary Anne, a sailor’s daughter thrown among political aristocrats; and Benjamin, a novel-writing dandy in a huntin’ and shootin’ party, and of Jewish descent in an anti-Semitic society. A mismatch made in heaven 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Republican opponents of the Irish government burn the homes of aristocrats as the War of Independence escalates. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Though he's keenly conscious of the demands of playing the fabled aristocrat grappling with avenging his father's murder, Kennan knows his way around the Bard's canon. Character of Hamlet haunts Seattle actor Darragh Kennan 2010-10-21T23:18:00Z Many Bratislavans fancy themselves the yang to Vienna’s yin: If Vienna is a staid, elderly aristocrat sipping coffee, then Bratislava is a vivacious young professional jet-setting around Europe. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Endless discussions of dinner menus and Liberty patterns and the complexities of social etiquette might provide a convincing exposition of the dullness of being an Edwardian aristocrat but they do little to enliven the narrative. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z In premodern Japan, aristocrats often pursued male and female lovers; their sexual trysts were the stuff of classical literature. Japan’s long history of blurred sexualities and gender-bending 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Graves's own illustrious ancestor Robert, born in 1895, was, for example, the son of an aristocrat and educated at Charterhouse school and Oxford. Poetically speaking at the Hay festival 2010-06-02T13:07:00Z Símon Boliívar, a Creole aristocrat, mobilised Venezuela and Colombia against Spain and became the most celebrated liberator. Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films 2011-03-14T19:27:41Z The New York-based Carey was shortlisted for Parrot and Olivier in America, his sprawling, funny account of a French aristocrat and his English servant's picaresque journey to 19th century America. Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z The characters are neither aristocrats nor neo-realist proletarians or peasants, but rather inhabitants of a world of relative prosperity and privilege. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z This was partly because of the way was presented then – from the "top" – and partly because the heads of and advisers to the department were invariably aristocrats. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z Nor does she sound anything like an English aristocrat, or an American, but speaks in a surprisingly strong Essex accent. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Tietjens, loosely modeled on Ford himself, is a stuffy Yorkshire aristocrat clinging to Edwardian values on the eve of the Great War. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Some of the best looks at Ralph Lauren's show on Thursday were borrowed from the boys in a collection plucked from a closet of a British aristocrat. NY Fashion Week finishes up; shows begin in Europe 2012-02-16T22:21:16Z Was the casting of the glossy pop star Josh Groban in the role of Pierre, a gloomy and none-too-dashing aristocrat, merely a cynical move to sell tickets? Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The history of this restaurant, which specializes in soba noodles, goes back to 1789 when it started serving its noodles to aristocrats and the imperial families in Japan. Sarashina Horii, Specializing in Soba Noodles, Opens 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Something of a dandy, and in spirit an aristocrat, he was a throwback to fin de siècle Vienna. Franz West loved, above all else, art and its creation 2012-07-27T15:45:12Z Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, was a French aristocrat with an enormous waxed mustache that hung on his face like a rogue accent mark. Design: Who Made the Olympic Rings? 2012-07-12T04:47:18Z But the highbrow, though an aristocrat, is not a snob. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He was an Ivy League-educated executive who lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had the refined manners of a 19th-century aristocrat – until, that is, it came to the subject of his current president. Readers recommend songs about assassination: The results 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z The scene in which Gennady confesses to Aksyusha that he’s no aristocrat but an actor scraping a living, then tries to woo her into joining the acting profession, has a beguiling moonshine charm about it. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z It looked as though America’s then 80-year experiment with self-government was nearing a violent end; European royalists and aristocrats reacted with glee, republicans with despair. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Once the proud mark of an aristocrat, now an act of rebellion inside the Beltway. Ascot ascendant? Martin eyes neckwear comeback 2010-05-14T22:17:00Z Behind me stood the Bath Pavilion, a grand bathing house that once drew European aristocrats and royalty, attracted by the curative powers of the area’s salt water and mythical light. Overnighter: Where Mondrian Lingers on a Dutch Coast 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z Foy’s character was never one of “the little people,” but she wasn’t always an aristocrat, either. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The exhibition, billed as a “journey through the grand home of Downton Abbey,” will be an interactive glimpse into the lives of the Crawley family, who are British aristocrats, and their staff. ‘Downton Abbey: The Exhibition’ to Tour the Modern World 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z By the mid-18th century, though, these Venetian aristocrats and merchants were living public lives, inviting attention in salons and cafes, putting on a show at the opera and in church. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In the 40 years since, she has become internationally renowned for vivid portraits of her intimates — as well as European aristocrats and celebrities — all framed within their own rarefied milieus. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Waltz convincingly reimagined the song contest as an aristocrats’ ball, a natural way to add more dancing. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z With its aristocrats, statesmen and perilous times, "The King's Speech" is a throwback to the majestic, eye-filling costume pageants that dominated film awards in Hollywood's earlier decades. 'The King's Speech' gets 12 Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T14:00:55Z All these men lived by their wits, frequently begging aristocrats for cash “subscriptions” to their future poems or novels — a pre-Internet version of crowdfunding. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Like human aristocrats, they expend much of their energy squabbling over family matters and determining whether some obscure cousin bitten on the wrong side of the bed is a blood relation. ‘The Book of Life,’ the final volume of Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy Baden-Baden, the spa town in the Black Forest, is a refuge for celebrities, artists and aristocrats. Q&A: Sites En Route from Frankfurt to Munich 2010-07-20T19:50:00Z Artists and aristocrats sought out rustic, informal scenery, reflecting a new immediacy in politics and religion. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z Fairbanks introduced moviegoers to a Spanish aristocrat in 1820s California — a blue blood who believes in blue-state values: fair play for the poor and protection of the innocent. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Neither peasant nor aristocrat, he sprang from lower social orders but had a gift of moving up and down the social ladder astutely. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The Black Moth by Georgette HeyerIn her first novel, Heyer made a hero out of highwayman Jack Carstares, an aristocrat in disguise, who has gone into hiding after being falsely accused of cheating at cards. John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z “Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats — the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms — while the field hands are left with the scraps.” Bill Moyers signs off — for the final time, he swears 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z She was born Helen Mironoff, the daughter of a civil-servant father descended from Russian aristocrats who had lost everything, and grew up working-class. Nothing like a dame: The splendor of Helen Mirren 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z But as American philanthropists bankrolled museum acquisition budgets, and European aristocrats and institutions started breaking up established collections, curators in the United States were able to relegate the reproductions to storage. Antiques: Silver That Survived War and Centuries 2011-05-12T21:41:29Z Also, many Buddhist sanctuaries began as aristocrats’ country estates, built in scenic and cooler locations in the heights and only later converted to religious uses. To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The most high-ranking of these courtesans presided over salons attended by philosophers, poets, writers, artists, musicians and incognito aristocrats. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z Like PBS' "Downton Abbey," it's set in the early 20th century among aristocrats and encompasses World War I's shattering effect on the social order. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z He calls himself Circus Clown Rico because he sees circus clowns as the aristocrats of the business. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z The supporting cast is equally strong, including the wonderfully named Detective Sergeant Winsome Jackman and Lady Veronica Chalmers, an aristocrat whose radical activities during her university years link her to the dead man. May crime fiction: Oates, Robinson and NW authors 2014-05-07T20:18:58Z First made famous as the vacation hideaway of the Roman emperors, Capri was also a favorite stop for Romantic Age aristocrats on a grand tour of Europe. Italy’s romantic Sorrento and the Isle of Capri 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z If peasants starved and then abandoned the country for the cities, the aristocrats, who lived off peasant production for both food and wealth, went down with them. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The freshly borrowed antiques at Gracie are distributed in formal rooms awash in floral upholstery, gilded mirrors, carved mantelpieces, wallpaper with scenes of aristocrats frolicking and crystal light fixtures. Gracie Mansion Updates Its Art With Diversity 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Before this Edwardian aristocrat will support women’s suffrage, she requires an intervention involving a famous pianist, a famous artist, a literature professor and a potted fern wearing a hat. Review | Women and age-old struggles take center stage in two local productions 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “Likeness” encompasses such sublimities as Donatello’s painted terra-cotta bust of an Italian aristocrat, which shines with aloof sensitivity, and Rodin’s breathtaking translucent “Mask of Hanako II Type E,” which seems the soul incarnate. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Without any hope of a respectable job and being desperate to ensure her son’s future, Elise accepts a position in the home of Lord Philippe Lavay, an obstinate aristocrat with little hope for his future. March’s best romance: ‘Chase Me,’ The Deal’ and ‘It Started With a Scandal’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But the aristocrats in “Beloved Sisters” have pretty much the same attitudes and manners as those of “Downton Abbey” or those of vintage Merchant Ivory films. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z She knew him mostly from his work on the BBC mini-series “To the Ends of the Earth,” in which he played a young British aristocrat traveling by ship to Australia. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z With the exchange, Roxana ensures that her son will be raised as a spoiled aristocrat and the true heir as a mistreated slave. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The Cherry Orchard Russian aristocrats face the loss of their family’s estate in this Chekhov classic. L.A. theater openings, July 27-Aug. 3: 'Taming of the Shrew' and more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Later there were pirates, runaways, smugglers and the occasional aristocrat. Pirates, Runaways, Smugglers and the Occasional Aristocrat 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Made of wood or papier-mâché and decorated Rococo-style with floral, avian and Asian motifs, they were used as face screens by 19th-century British aristocrats to keep wax-based makeup from melting in front of fireplaces. Art in Review: Art and Antique Dealers League of America Spring Show NYC 2013-05-02T19:35:27Z Like many an aristocrat before her, this dowager duchess understands how well blue blood sells. Books of The Times: Life Among the Upper Crust, Seen From Two Generations 2010-12-12T23:24:00Z She was inspired, she said, by an aristocrat "disowned" by her family. Freedom in fashion startups for up and comers 2012-02-17T19:57:11Z Back home after the execution, Cromwell scornfully dismisses the aristocrats who helped him get rid of Anne and who now expect his help in restoring Henry’s castoff daughter Mary to favor and the royal succession. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Many of these stately homes, as the English call them, were built in Victorian times by ridiculously rich nobles and aristocrats. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The Southern aristocrats know that its real purpose is to deprive them of all possible means of rising up against their betters. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Moroni, among the best of underappreciated Renaissance painters, brought a new level of naturalism to his subjects, who included lavishly dressed aristocrats but also scholars and tradesmen. 19 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z But as conceived by Verdi, Monterone is a count, a rung lower than a duke but still an aristocrat. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z This band of soldiers, sailors, coroners and aristocrats hatched a plan to float a dead body onto the Spanish coast, supposedly a plane crash victim, actually left to drift by a U-boat-dodging British submarine. Great writers of spy fiction have often been spies themselves 2010-05-21T20:12:00Z A career soldier and son of a disgraced aristocrat, Fawcett is anxious to change his fortunes and increase his social standing. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Alexander Hanson plays the osteopath who treated Gandhi and Winston Churchill, painted portraits of royal family members and then partied the night away with showgirls and aristocrats. Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 2013-09-30T19:53:03Z It's always a difficult moment for a modern audience: the crusading reformer turning into an intellectual aristocrat. Public Enemy – review 2013-05-14T11:40:16Z A gig at the hotel — with its population of C.E.O.s, oil barons, hedge fund managers, real estate tycoons and foreign aristocrats — would be a major step up. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z "She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z There’s a garden where goats pull 18th-century aristocrats on dollies, and a town square where gnomes drink beer and a ginormous rat plays the accordion. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z They dress well; they’re clean and pale, as aristocrats once were. Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z “The Power of Style: Verdura at 75” celebrates the company’s 75 years in Manhattan by looking back at the idiosyncratic genius of the Sicilian aristocrat who first began designing jewelry in the 1930s. Verdura celebrates 75 years on Fifth Avenue 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In short order, they are edited and polished, any allusion to the bride hunt eliminated and the result presented as the experiences abroad of an unnamed, and now deceased, German aristocrat. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z As an American friend married to a French aristocrat explains, “You’re as handsome as ever; but people here don’t go on looking at each other forever.” How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The issue has made the US papers, however, where as "a kind of Downton Abbey for media aristocrats". Brand Nigella: Will court case affect her career? 2013-12-20T12:45:14Z The film, which features drag queens, paramedics, and an impoverished aristocrat among its subjects, focuses on people living on the margins, on the periphery of Rome, whose historic landmarks are never shown in the film. ArtsBeat: Italian Documentary Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival 2013-09-09T19:20:55Z Painted portraits were serious affairs — whether of state, commerce, historical record or private life, and whether for royalty, aristocrats and their hangers-on, or the bourgeoisie, who usually could afford only pastel. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In “The Favourite”, Stone plays Abigail Masham, an aristocrat fallen on hard times trying to rebuild her life in the royal court. Netflix's queen enjoyed sex scenes with Emma Stone in Venice movie 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z And then there were the German aristocrats and industrialists who, in the 1930s, sought to salvage their power by aligning with the darkest of forces. What Keeps America Divided? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Nothing in Wilde’s prior output hinted at such ebullience or the sustained addictive battiness of his aristocrat caricatures. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z “Take your trousers off and sit down,” he commands Orlando, before licking a battle wound on the aristocrat’s thigh. ‘The King’s Man’ Review: Suiting Up and Shooting Down 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z What was it about the rustic style of late buncheong that so appealed to the aristocrats and common people who avidly acquired it? Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z Projected images, instead of painted scenery, take the ballet from its initial village setting, where peasant girl Giselle falls in love with a duplicitous aristocrat, to the eerie beauty of its supernatural denouement. This week's new dance 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Ancient artifacts on view that once belonged to Irish aristocrats include a headless Roman statue of Venus and a pair of prehistoric deer antlers about 10 feet wide. Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Blanche de la Force, a nervous, fretful young aristocrat, seeks to join an order of Carmelite nuns to quiet her mind and find refuge amid the chaos of the French Revolution. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z You expect immaculate playing; imaginative phrasing; and the intelligence of a musical aristocrat fused with a passionate perfectionist. Anne-Sophie Mutter with Lambert Orkis: A night of perfection | Classical review 2013-03-04T17:52:30Z The isotopes in her tooth enamel reveal that she was actually born in Rome, and the jet beads, rich damask and gold thread of her shroud suggest she was an aristocrat. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Those in his white world of fellow Yale grads, financiers, and American aristocrats were completely unaware of his Brooklyn life, and vice versa. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z And there was this spread of “Marat/Sade” that was terrifying and gorgeous — a two-page spread of an image of beheaded aristocrats. ‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z For a long time we thought of the Brits as aristocrats; Swinging London and punk associated Britain with rock music and fashion and boundary-pushing. Britain soldiers on, bakes off: “Great British Baking Show” projects a happier image for fans 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Follett also makes a point of showing how clever aristocrats used Christianity to gain an edge in business disputes. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Iris is a spoiled heiress returning to England to marry a chinless aristocrat for his title. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z In the 17th and 18th centuries, aristocrats mounted private versions of the plays, elevating Shakespeare, so they saw it, from the clapper-clawing of the vulgar. Shakespeare and Amateur Performance by Michael Dobson - review 2011-07-15T21:55:03Z “It’s composed of a self-satisfied people at the top, our new aristocrats.” Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Sorry to be a spoilsport, reader, but my heart sinks at the sight of people bowing and scraping before aristocrats with titles they haven’t earned. Review: After the Terrors of the Blitz Comes ‘A Royal Night Out’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Almost Royal In this new episode seemingly unflappable British aristocrats George and Poppy Carlton visit Detroit. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Gravity' on HBO 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Unlike the sons of aristocrats who aimed for a career in the cavalry, the young Corsican glimpsed the future: He studied artillery. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Natural aristocrats are not just superior at whatever specific thing they do, they are superior people: “Some human beings are not only brighter than others but wiser, nobler, more advanced in the art of living.” Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Irons, who stars as a Renaissance aristocrat and future pope in Showtime’s “The Borgias.” ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: 'The Borgias,' Marvel Comics, Tough-Guy TV and More 2011-03-25T20:45:35Z Stephen Jones is a celebrated British milliner who creates gloriously glamorous hats that are worn by fashion models on the catwalk, social swells at royal weddings and aristocrats when they are doing aristocratic things. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “At that time it seemed imperative that the Prince of Wales should marry an aristocrat,” Penny Junor, who has written biographies of both Elizabeth and Diana, said in an email. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The plot concerns Alviano Salvago, a disfigured outcast who constructs an island paradise, the pleasures of which go awry when other aristocrats use it as a base for abducting and assaulting the maidens of Genoa. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z She’s an ordinary, guileless, somewhat clueless young woman — kind of basic, as they say nowadays — pulled into the orbit of an enigmatic aristocrat with peculiar tastes and dark secrets. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The site he ended up with was an unabashed fan site for regular guys, as opposed to the traditional, cataloglike watch-enthusiast publications, which feel more like oak-paneled clubhouses for silver-haired aristocrat collectors. With Wristwatches Website Hodinkee, Benjamin Clymer Carves a Niche 2013-12-20T21:44:57Z It is the flavour as tasted by aristocrats. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z Beard ended up marrying an aristocrat – something of a scandal – and running the Covent Garden opera house. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z The silky growl and insinuating gaze of the British actor Alan Rickman make him a prime candidate to play a jaded aristocrat privy to every dirty secret within his purview, whether political or sexual. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Could he now act well enough to play Pierre, the unhappy Russian aristocrat who would be onstage for most of the show? For Josh Groban, a Boot Camp for Broadway 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z British cinema is often ridiculed for its obsession with royals and aristocrats, but here’s the thing: Hollywood is even worse. The Last Jedi: can Star Wars’ Rey break Hollywood’s obsession with privilege? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Since their creation by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder around 1530, many have been enticed by the two “Adam” and “Eve” paintings. Among them, a Russian-born aristocrat turned U.S. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z But later generations who settled in London married up and out, with Ashkenazis as well as gentiles; they remade themselves as British aristocrats, not all of them gifted in business. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Morley was a British aristocrat who served in the House of Lords, and who was "involved in a sordid sex scandal that led to divorce" in 1809. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z She praises the writing of English aristocrat Lord Berners, which traces a class of writers who swanned around together through two wars and terrible economic crashes. Tania Vartan Creates Coats from Furnishing Fabrics 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The later Medicis completed the change from merchants to aristocrats and even royals. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z It sends envoys to the planet with the hope they will be able to court the favor of the aristocrats who maintain European mannerisms and control the land. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Pictures of slaves did prove marketable among aristocrats and abolitionists in England and on the Continent. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z Susceptible young Tatyana falls for the title character, the visiting friend of her sister’s fiancé, and pours out her burgeoning passion for the imperious aristocrat that very night in a letter. Seattle Opera’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is fine but could offer so much more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It is also a de facto memorial to an entire operatic ethos, exemplified by the lavish productions of Franco Zeffirelli, that’s now vanished about as completely as the guillotined aristocrats who give “Ghosts” its title. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Despite the dangers, British aristocrats insisted that the hobby suited the poor and people with mental illness. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z The other restored work is the Hispanic Society’s portrait of Camillo Astalli-Pamphili, a Roman aristocrat whose connections got him into the church. Velázquez’s Infinite World in a Handful of Portraits 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Felicity Jones plays a humble musician's daughter who is ardently pursued by the son of a powerful aristocrat with fatal consequences all round. The best theatre for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:02Z Decadents are often aristocrats who didn’t do their ancestral duty of going out to defend the empire. The Kanye-Bowie connection: “It’s songs about fame and about decadence, about this dissolute life and how you’re quite unhappy” 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It is Mr. Pomerance’s firmly underlined point that, whether he is the object of ridicule among street mobs or of fawning praise among aristocrats, Merrick is always a mirror to a flawed and frightened society. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The latest Gucci collection is all about aristocrats, dandies and artists gathered in the haven of a posh gentlemen's club, playing bridge and exchanging eccentric views. Milan designers tip hat to summer elegance 2011-06-20T22:31:13Z The last time the artist exhibited portraits, her models were European artists, royals and aristocrats. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Modern museums have their origins in the German wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, collections of objects assembled by European aristocrats that included everything from goblets to unusual biological specimens. Art Review: ?A Passion for Drawings,? Charles Ryskamp?s Bequest, at Frick 2012-02-23T23:27:54Z |
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