"Our drawing rooms are filled with overfed aristocrats who have no idea what real is," he announces to a drawing room full of overfed aristocrats who have no idea what real life is.
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Life could be complicated for Chinese aristocrats in the 1700s.
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Swooning markets have indeed hit the Dividend Aristocrats Index too.
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Aristocrats would limit voting to those with the correct breeding.
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In other words, many meritocrats are the children of aristocrats.
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It's like asking if the world needs another "Aristocrats" joke.
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Case in point: The is down 26 percent this year, trailing by a wide margin the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index (-183 percent) and S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index, which is flat.
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"Rob Hiaasen, you're one of his enabled asshole aristocrats," Ramos wrote.
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Edoardo "Edo" Mapelli Mozzi comes from a family of Italian aristocrats.
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Pajamas Shown: Bedhead Arctic Aristocrats Pajamas, $29.00 – $140.00 pre piece; Nordstrom.
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But a family of deposed aristocrats living in isolation proved intriguing.
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The film's dancing French aristocrats come in every size and color.
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The poor generally stuck to the right and aristocrats to the left.
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There were rich people, but they weren't super-rich, like European aristocrats.
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First, it is the aristocrat among churches, and a church for aristocrats.
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Old Master paintings he acquired from cash-poor European aristocrats to wealthy
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The S&P Dividend Aristocrats are up nearly 23% year to date.
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Well, royalty, and brides, some debutantes and genuine aristocrats, actual or aspiring.
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They show Old Republic aristocrats distracted in the face of collapsing democracy.
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They came into the world as individuals rather than as aristocrats or peasants.
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At midcentury, the super-rich really were a mix of oligarchs and aristocrats.
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She often didn't think much of aristocrats, despite moving in that world herself.
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The event was filled with London socialites, fellow aristocrats, plus the rapper Eve.
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Calling out New York City's aristocracy is in vogue, even among the aristocrats.
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"Aristocrats have better bodies, bodies are racialized," says Laqueur, summing up the idea.
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It's composed of a self-satisfied people at the top, our new aristocrats.
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The Forges are the "kings" of the title — Bluegrass aristocrats of apparently limitless wealth.
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The British intelligence service, dominated by aristocrats, provided him with an especially rich subject.
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Data on the life expectancy of aristocrats in England has fascinated researchers for years.
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Equality before the law he saw as impossible—not even aristocrats could get it.
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It recounts the story of four aristocrats who resolve to experience every sexual perversion.
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It is harder to sell landed aristocrats to the people than it used to be.
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Border guards (of course), lobbyists, cops, Vine stars, aristocrats, Sunday Times columnists, and so on.
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Do the aristocrats have the ultimate authority because they have the money and the land?
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Once, money had been held in the hands and lands of a few wealthy aristocrats.
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His appearance in The Aristocrats is still kind of shocking in the most wonderful way.
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She is a subtle reader and persuasive champion of the aristocrats of her cultural hierarchy.
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Or, as the comments sections calls it, The Aristocrats, Frost/Nixon, and Thelma and Louise.
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The bohemians have souls, the aristocrats power, and neither knows what to do with them.
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But the aristocrats ruled nations; in the A.I. era, machines are doing all the thinking.
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But Britain, where aristocrats own huge tracts of land, opposed the idea, Mr. Fischler said.
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But here it's the Irish characters who are more finely drawn than the fading aristocrats.
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Valleywag often revelled in the foibles of local aristocrats, particularly a businessman named Peter Thiel.
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Five years later Denmark adopted a similar law, which also aimed at exposing corrupt aristocrats.
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The spangled boutiques inhabit a phalanx of regal hôtels particuliers where Renaissance aristocrats held salons.
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One Scottish historian denounced your aristocrats as "foully licentious, utterly effeminate...pampered minions and bepowdered poetasters".
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Such funds include the , the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF and ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.
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They were in fashion, they were the opposite of what people thought that aristocrats looked like.
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But I didn't come to ogle the aristocrats—I came to ogle their beautiful, expensive toys.
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The warrior kings had become aristocrats and businesspeople, while the peasants were, of course, the workers.
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They were the children of the wealthy elite, the deposed aristocrats swept away with the revolution.
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Then they are glamorous 1940s aristocrats, hunting a lost chapter of Don Quixote at a séance.
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Romans wore purple only if they were aristocrats, and need I mention the yellow Jewish stars?
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The lace, crafted in farmhouses, became popular with Queen Victoria and fashionable aristocrats of the day.
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To escape the ravages of the Black Death, 10 young aristocrats retreat to a secluded villa.
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The entire royal family was here, along with a complement of English aristocrats and important personages.
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The trend started with aristocrats, but caught on with middle- and working-class lads as well.
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Those unhappy folks speaking English under an ornate proscenium are not really Russian aristocrats, after all.
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At the same time, a number of impoverished English aristocrats began to arrive in the States.
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For this reason, Aristotle regarded lotteries as a quintessentially democratic device, whereas elections favored aristocrats and oligarchs.
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A particular favorite was a skit of aristocrats debating the virtues of words like antelope versus sausage.
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, aristocrats from opposing partisan camps who teamed up to fight the Nazis.
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Those who enjoyed these advantages were aristocrats, who would ever seek to cement their power as oligarchs.
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On the one hand are the so-called Red Aristocrats, with Mr. Xi as their flag bearer.
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With rare exceptions, these Renaissance libraries were originally restricted to elite circles of local aristocrats and scholars.
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In another memorably physical scene, twirling aristocrats at a ball trample loaves of bread under their feet.
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Exit the robber barons (and the real aristocrats); enter the cold-eyed oligarchs and their murderous henchmen.
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Decaying paintings on the wall seem to depict aristocrats in European-style attire lost in philosophical reflection.
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"Our drawing rooms are full of overfed aristocrats who have no idea what real life is, who have even forgotten how to speak their own languages," he proclaims to a room full of those very same overfed aristocrats, suggesting that a conquest by Napoleon might be for the better.
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The world belongs to a class of gifted magical aristocrats, and commoners must serve them for a decade.
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Before the 350-year-old estate became a hotel, several aristocrats and even a royal called it home.
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This enormous outdoor amphitheater was one such gift to the commoners from the ivory tower of the aristocrats.
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He was in my movie "The Aristocrats," and I saw him backstage at his show and at ours.
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It's gradually being torn apart by a class war raging between the eponymous aristocrats and the common folk.
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One way to invest in those types of companies is the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF.
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" In an age of princes, dukes, nobles, and aristocrats of every sort, the Constitution prohibited "titles of nobility.
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Betting on the outcome are Judy Geeson and Malcolm McDowell, done up like grotesque, 17th-century French aristocrats.
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Propped up by pillows, Louis greets an entourage of aristocrats, confidantes, physicians, and servants gathered around his bed.
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For decades, the warm, dry Bodrum Peninsula has been a playground for Turkish aristocrats, international royalty and celebrities.
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Over a century ago, industrialization brought on a culture clash between agrarian populists and the genteel Victorian aristocrats.
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Naito noted that for decades the dynasties remained stable even as emperors were often overthrown by other aristocrats.
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And he appeared in "The Shooting Party" (1985), a British drama about thoughtless pre-World War I aristocrats.
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He chronicled the ESP believers and the Upper East Side aristocrats who imagined they were radical Black Panthers.
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Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, European portraiture immortalized tailored tunics and the older aristocrats who wore them.
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After six seasons, PBS Masterpiece's beloved British series about aristocrats and servants has rolled to a gentle, satisfying close.
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The monarchy had nurtured an over-mighty state, as French kings sucked power from aristocrats towards the central government.
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This sendup of reality television follows the British aristocrats Georgie and Poppy Carlton as they visit the United States.
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Moving to the moon, surrounded by aristocrats, to take care of spoiled cats and semi-synthetic pigs to butcher.
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The performers' dramatic posturing is more recognizable, too, after decades of reality TV series about artists, aristocrats, and wannabes.
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The mansion dates back to the 1920s and was originally owned by wealthy aristocrats Sir Dhunjibhoy and Lady Bomanji.
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How can centuries-old paintings and sculptures of gods, saints and aristocrats appeal to consumers in a digital present?
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You get the gods, the courts, the aristocrats, and, in the case of "Poppea," you get Nero's imperial court.
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Follett also makes a point of showing how clever aristocrats used Christianity to gain an edge in business disputes.
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Back then, there weren't many effective medical treatments or preventive measures for anyone, even aristocrats with money to spend.
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It was a musette, a bagpipe with bellows that was in vogue among 17th- and 18th-century French aristocrats.
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First, Jackson was the first commoner to become president after a string of six aristocrats in the White House.
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To read the Hollywood trades, we in the Writers Guild are somehow simultaneously aristocrats and agitators, overpaid radical dandies.
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Whatever you call the fake beauty marks that European aristocrats affixed to their cheeks, their history is worth exploring.
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And cars, most likely, will flee like aristocrats amidst a revolution, spooked by an intentionally inconvenient 5 mph speed limit.
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Pope Francis is yet to raise a standing army of extremists or drive any Italian aristocrats naked through the street.
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Though the Dividend Aristocrats Index doesn't match other high-growth stocks during go-go years, it does excel over time.
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It's also a member of the Dividend Aristocrats Index, which also includes Medtronic, Kimberly-Clark, Pepsico and many other companies.
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The consumer goods company Procter and Gamble (PG), also included in the Dividend Aristocrats Index, is one of Peters' picks.
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In the 1500's, ice cream started to spread through Europe, though at first only rich aristocrats could afford it.
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The hand-crafted undergarments are sought after by socialites, celebrities and aristocrats from the Middle East, Europe and New York.
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It has usually wielded its power in symbiosis with a traditional elite comprising the monarchy, aristocrats and interrelated wealthy families.
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The idea of Wotan and his dysfunctional family of gods as aristocrats losing their hold on power is not new.
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His people, mostly commoners, amassed personal wealth as China's economy skyrocketed — to the dismay and envy of many Red Aristocrats.
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Begin in the Triana district, across the Guadalquivir river that once separated the aristocrats from the poor and working classes.
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Silver furniture was the most obvious demonstration of wealth, "as not many aristocrats could commission such an extravagance," he said.
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Her pictures of black people dressed as aristocrats, her #remakehistory project, can be seen on the walls of the Médina.
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She was outspoken, confident, witty and had a habit of flouting convention that seemed to appeal to stuffy British aristocrats.
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Aristocrats obtained chocolate from monks and conquistadors traveling back and forth between the African and South American colonies and Europe.
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Kehinde Wiley's signature portraits are devoted to depicting everyday African Americans transposed into extraordinary settings inspired by historic paintings of aristocrats.
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It is fitting that this even larger version of that show thoroughly redeems Mapplethorpe's revisionist vision of American saints and aristocrats.
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ACROSS the French countryside, in the summer of 1789, rumours swirled about vengeful aristocrats bent on the destruction of peasants' property.
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SPXBK is up less than 22 percent, underperforming the 9.2 percent gain in the S&P 500 dividend aristocrats index .SPDAUDP.
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I think he picked up the sheng in the way that aristocrats dabbled in music because they didn't have to work.
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It is evident in the rococo renderings of Sam McKinniss, who paints pop culture figures — Prince, Lorde, Flipper — like hallowed aristocrats.
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Aristocrats were expected to be landowners, so the af Klint family acquired property on the island of Adelso in Lake Malaren.
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When François Mitterrand came to power in France, the country's aristocrats, fearful of new taxes, stashed their money in Monacan banks.
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Something is stirring in Monaco; Europe's aristocrats will be sure to devour it long before it can come to a boil.
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Until fairly recently, all hereditary peers (meaning, basically, aristocrats who inherited their titles) were entitled to join the House of Lords.
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If you're trying to tease out the pro wrestling version of 'The Aristocrats' and it falls totally flat, the match is over.
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After all, who needs a maid of honor when you presumably have a whole team of English aristocrats organizing your happy day?
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The fool: Feste in "Twelfth Night" Ten times as educated as the aristocrats he entertains, Feste is one of Shakespeare's wittier clowns.
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Hence the term "blue-blooded," an adjective that implies aristocrats have skin so pale it provides a clear canvas for their veins.
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He was mostly based in France, mingling with the cream of Parisian society and the arts and playing for aristocrats and royalty.
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In 1944, he joined a plot organized by fellow aristocrats to assassinate Hitler in 1944, and was consequently dismissed from the army.
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Anatomy schools were one source; fabricated porcelain dentures were another, but their brittleness and lack of verisimilitude put off self-conscious aristocrats.
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Executives work a lot harder than the aristocrats ever did and, with the exception of family firms, their positions are not hereditary.
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This is what the American left has forgotten most fundamentally about the American Revolution: that its foot soldiers were anything but aristocrats.
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The first cafes opened in Bratislava in the 18th century, when aristocrats sipped European-style coffee and wine in elegantly appointed salons.
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Coterie writing was the chosen medium of 16th century English aristocrats, groups of readers and writers associated by friendship and social status.
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When in the company of intellectuals or aristocrats, what Ullrich calls his "inferiority complex" was inflamed, and he grew fidgety and irritable.
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He said nunchaku were adapted from horses' headgear, a quick self-defense weapon that aristocrats could use to protect themselves from bandits.
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The document went through various hands, including French aristocrats, a German collector, and most recently a leading collector of erotica in Switzerland.
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If Mr. Xi stays in power for more than two five-year terms, the ascendancy of the Red Aristocrats may become unstoppable.
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Three-day subscribers, principally aristocrats and financiers who, like today, underwrote new productions, got to enter the Garnier through a dedicated entrance.
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In the 19th century, families like the Astors and the Vanderbilts spent years or even decades designing estates to impress European aristocrats.
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Both Stockdale and Wilson ended badly — Stockdale ruined by libel suits brought by other aristocrats, and Wilson ending her days in obscurity.
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Sex on the show is most often reserved for soldiers stealing time between wars in bar corners, or aristocrats luxuriating in brothels.
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These parties were said to be the only time when aristocrats and peasants, disguised by their masks, played out their fantasies together.
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Olmsted, whose politics leaned sharply left, saw in Birkenhead Park a radical civic experiment, a place where commoners and aristocrats could rub elbows.
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Unlike Downton, Gosford doesn't find the aristocrats upstairs all that endearing, and the most touching moment is reserved for the staff down below.
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At "the coolest fucking party ever," Lambkin then met a former music TV presenter, who happened to be the daughter of German aristocrats.
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English aristocrats delighted in the silks and spices of the east, but the Turks and Moroccans were decidedly less interested in English wool.
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Next door lives Tahani (Jameela Jamil), a Pakistani-born, London-raised daughter of aristocrats who dedicated her life to raising money for charity.
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The Red Aristocrats want the C.C.P. and the state sector to control markets and corporations, a carry-over from their Marxist founding fathers.
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With "The Damned" [based on Luchino Visconti's 1969 film about Nazi-era German aristocrats] in 2016, I avoided doing something [overt] about Hitler.
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There are photos of the club's greatest players and its greatest victories: against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, all of European soccer's aristocrats.
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Managers are the game's aristocrats, powerless next to the Ivy League quants who have become the faces of their franchises but comparatively divine.
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It was an impossible job, since hundreds of animals flowed in from the collections of royals and aristocrats, colonial officials and ships' captains.
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Now the quirks of a scheme that helped aristocrats to finance the Crusades have got modern leaseholders up in arms, and ministers promising reforms.
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Just like the cheap Renaissance mirrors, the democratisation of photography enabled everyone to see themselves anew, from aristocrats and artists to farmers and maids.
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I think back in the day there was a sort of snootiness about North America amongst European aristocrats, many of whom started the IOC.
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There are also seeming references to past historical events, like aristocrats giving birth in public spaces and America's incarceration of "promiscuous" women around WWI.
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Only a small number of prisoners were Jewish; others included prostitutes, Communists and aristocrats (Fiorello La Guardia's sister was imprisoned there for a time).
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In spite of her worldly connections, she has the unexpected ingenuousness of those rare aristocrats who are still safely contained within their insular history.
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From the mid-19th century to the 1920s and beyond it always sought to cater to the new wealthy class, not the old aristocrats.
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From there, it morphed into the accessory of choice for 18th-century French aristocrats who liked to party dressed as shepherds and poor farmers.
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After opening in affluent Chelsea in 1985, Nam Long soon became a magnet for aristocrats, pop stars, and MPs, as well as rogue traders.
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Less than 1 percent of England's population — including aristocrats, royals and wealthy investors — owns about half of the land, according to an upcoming book.
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Japanese aristocrats practiced a related, largely monochromatic technique, called suminagashi ("floating ink"), to enhance calligraphy and haiku, as far back as the 12th century.
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" No. 25 Asturias, Spain This classic Spanish novel "is a rich, complex study of life among the aristocrats in a small northern Spanish town.
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The Duchess of Cambridge's mother, Carole Middleton, was also a flight attendant — reportedly given the nickname of "Doors to Manual" by rude young aristocrats.
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In recent months, he has been linked with posts (some available, some not) at Europe's aristocrats: Arsenal, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Paris St.-Germain.
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He was born just outside the city into a French-speaking family of slaveholding aristocrats and ran for mayor of New Orleans in 1858.
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The aristocracy robbed and extorted for centuries, tweeted Kathrin Vogler, an MP for Die Linke, adding that aristocrats are lucky Germany is not France.
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For 22019 years, journalists chronicled the deposed aristocrats — a prince, a princess and a queen, the last of a storied Shiite Muslim royal line.
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They're short poems, once circulated by aristocrats for private pleasure, but Shakespeare probably oversaw the publication of his own complete sonnets for their commercial value.
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The reliefs are as lacy as intricate jewelry, and the foliage and petals are botanically accurate; their facets would have reflected candlelight in aristocrats' salons.
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As chaekgeori became more popular and accessible, the middle-class merchants also began collecting them, although they couldn't afford the professional artists whom aristocrats commissioned.
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In 18th-century Britain, the aristocrats divided into Tories and Whigs, depending on their attitude towards issues such as constitutional monarchy and the established church.
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While the cast hasn't been officially announced, the network insisted it will include aristocrats form the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, Nigeria and Ireland, among others.
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Sizemore said S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, the basis for a ProShares ETF (NOBL), only includes stocks with a 25-year history of raising dividends.
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If you want distractingly bad special effects in an otherwise gorgeous movie about decadent aristocrats, there's giallo legend Mario Bava's surreal Lisa and the Devil.
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Fortunately for fans sick of mind-numbing hospital talk, Robert sacrificed himself by interrupting dinner and spewing blood all over the food and several aristocrats.
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In Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel, French aristocrats beguile and torment each other with ruthlessness sharper than a guillotine's blade.
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But House and Senate Republicans share the same agenda: Shovel handouts to aristocrats and owners of capital and large corporations, while punishing virtually everyone else.
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Like the painter's son from the Bronx, the farmer's kid from Umbria lives in a lordly manner largely out of reach for Italy's remnant aristocrats.
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The craze was democratic, cutting across class lines: Farmers foraged for specimens while aristocrats imported rarities hunted in far-flung lands, from Borneo to Brazil.
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We can easily recognize her grotesquely vampiric aristocrats: They are more and not less terrifying because they don't have any supernatural powers of their own.
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Marina Nicole Sturdza was born on April 25, 1944, in Brasov, in the Transylvania region, to Romanian aristocrats, Ion Sturdza and the former Ioana Soutzo.
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It elides numerous divides: city and countryside, aristocrats and laborers, colonizers and colonized — "fancy Asian" and "jungle Asian," as the comedian Ali Wong puts it.
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Red Aristocrats come from the families of the old-guard revolutionaries who held top posts upon the founding of the Chinese communist republic in 1949.
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Mr. Xi's camp may seem powerful, but his base is quite small: The Red Aristocrats number only about 40,000 people, according to one of them.
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Their specialty was movie stars, with a sideline in impoverished aristocrats, and they regularly entertained so many guests that the overworked staff threatened to rebel.
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For centuries, British aristocrats have hosted kings and queens in their extravagant homes (Queen Elizabeth II has even visited Highclere Castle, the setting for "Downton").
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"I was always trying to sneak pineapple onto the menu" at St. John, she said, by arguing that Victorian-era aristocrats grew them in hothouses.
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New York (CNN Business)A group of British aristocrats beat out Brad Pitt as an astronaut and John Rambo at the box office this weekend.
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Through his portraiture, Wiley depicts these otherwise unknown people as "heroic, powerful, majestic" figures commonly found in classical European paintings of noblemen, royalty and aristocrats.
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My paternal grandmother, who came from a family of Swabian aristocrats in southwestern Germany, studied medicine just as German women won the right to vote.
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In the Landjahr, sons and daughters of factory workers would live and work side by side with sons and daughters of aristocrats and wealthy industrialists.
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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.
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His fellow aristocrats were apparently so impressed by the ingenious innovation that "the sandwich" became a thing in Great Britain, and eventually abroad as well.
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Despite tattoo's popularity with British aristocrats in the beginning of its Western arrival, it later obtained the social stigma linked to underground subcultures such as punk.
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According to legend, unsuspecting aristocrats were at first amused by the weather, and decided to host a party at the island's largest and most lavish hotel.
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"If you go back into history, we find wealthy aristocrats who weren't all committing suicide and drowning in misery and drugs and drink," Hughes told Motherboard.
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Cristóbal is not one of those white people, the series insists, but righteous, brave, and socially progressive, despite growing up in a family of slaveholding aristocrats.
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By shifting focus from the battlefield to the home front and back, he captured the total effect of war on armies and aristocrats, husbands and wives.
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The table fountain was a popular object for those who could afford to commission one, as evidenced by centuries-old, handwritten inventories of royalty and aristocrats.
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More than 22019 years after we ended slavery, we continue to exploit human labor in a misguided attempt to maximize profits for the aristocrats and oligarchs.
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Conclaves of the super-rich meeting together to talk about the ills of inequality reek of aristocrats debating whether to share some crumbs from their tables.
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He also claims to be in secret negotiations with British aristocrats loyal to his cause, and dangles an alliance between France and England under Duvernet's nose.
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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.
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England: Less than 1 percent of the country's population — including aristocrats, royals and wealthy investors — owns about half of the land, according to a forthcoming book.
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He was forced to abdicate in 1947 after Soviet-occupied Romania held elections, which solidified control by the Communists, who began purging aristocrats and other dissenters.
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In 2014, with his son, Jonathan P. Binzen, Mr. Binzen wrote "Richardson Dilworth: Last of the Bare-Knuckled Aristocrats," a portrait of another magnetic Philadelphia mayor.
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Seeing the aristocrats on horseback and the mosque in the picture, Mr. Bolen said, visions of Crusaders and Knights Templar began to dance in his head.
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The surrounding design is a classically inspired laurel wreath, a motif fashionable among aristocrats at this time, reflecting the age's interest in the newly revived Olympic Games.
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In 1648, European nobility and aristocrats got together in Westphalia, northwestern Germany, and signed treaties which ended both the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
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The monograph's authors have scoured the archives of aristocrats for references to such wares and have located drawings, prints and photos depicting lost works by the gilder.
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It's been argued that Egyptian aristocrats may have applied more toxins to their faces in the name of beauty than the Hollywood elite ever could with Botox.
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But Murder Mystery isn't even stylishly campy, nor cleverly poking fun at a genre, which, with its glossy, chic class of aristocrats, is ripe for social commentary.
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Yet for Protestant aristocrats like him, whose families had served the state for hundreds of years, overcoming a narrow and literal reading of Romans 13 was difficult.
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Some aristocrats and Quakers, for example, financed many refugee children's passage to the UK. There's a lot of talk about Trump and his team having fascist tendencies.
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As usual, though, the game on the court was probably the least interesting thing to happen to the Knicks, who remain basketball's version of the "Aristocrats" joke.
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Formidable and eccentric in the way of Mediterranean aristocrats, she is the guiding force behind the foundation's rebirth as an important engine of the city's cultural scene.
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Perhaps an even more significant divergence is that the fictional businessman is soon undone by his own cowardice, with no action by the bohemians or aristocrats required.
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But they were a hard sell, even though cameos have existed for centuries and became particularly popular in the 1800s, when British aristocrats made the Grand Tour.
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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.
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American wines did not interest my father, because the British aristocrats he modelled his tastes on, and whom he wished to impress, were ignorant of Yank vineyards.
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A descendant of Polish aristocrats, Mr. Brzezinski, who was 89, advised Mr. Carter through the tumult of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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"I became fascinated by nightgowns of the 15th and 16th centuries, which were worn by aristocrats in order to protect their organs from the cold," she says.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is an unending sting of cameos, each one increasingly more awkward and shoehorned in, filled with sketches that play like someone's lame attempt at an "Aristocrats" joke.
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The most celebrated British forlorn hope was a band of aristocrats and ne'er-do-wells sent to scale the walls of the Spanish city of Badajoz in 1812.
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The French revolutionaries had been so blinded by their commitment to liberty, equality and fraternity that they crushed dissenters and slaughtered aristocrats, including many members of Tocqueville's family.
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Tarnished City by Vic James Vic James began her career last year with The Gilded Cage, in which the world belongs to a class of gifted magical aristocrats.
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Since the former "Suits" star, 36, and the royal, 33, tied the knot earlier this year, there has been growing interest surrounding the lives of young British aristocrats.
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He calls his videos "reviews"—appraising the food, the silverware, and the dimensions of his private television screen for any prospective aristocrats looking to spend their money wisely.
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Some Greeks treated Paul's ministry with "amused tolerance"—they were aristocrats of the spirit, wealthy in their own philosophers and gods, looking down on oddly single-minded parvenus.
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From an early age, the precocious siblings churned out fantasy fiction set in Glass Town, Angria and Gondal, magical imaginary lands populated by aristocrats, poets and lovers aflame.
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The Grand Tour, that rite of passage carried out by English aristocrats to experience the supposed antiquity of Italy and Greece, produced mostly indifferent verse and average fiction.
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He built the company by evoking an idyllic past from which hard times were banished, taking inspiration from Ivy League college students, prewar British aristocrats and frontier cowboys.
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The show then backtracks to unravel the entanglements among the hotel's aristocrats, mistresses and Nazi spies, whose glamorous lives take dramatic turns as World War II ravages Britain.
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He's a cosmopolitan capitalist, and although he is surrounded by aristocrats and monarchists, he understands that true power, here at the beginning of modernity, lies with the banks.
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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.
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Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy.
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Costumed as punkified peasants and aristocrats in a bold musical adaptation of Tolstoy, they danced down the aisles, handing out pierogies and creating an unusually immersive musical experience.
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Credit...Video by Bryan Denton For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital.
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Her father sent these paintings to local aristocrats and prominent artists like Michelangelo and Giulio Clovio to promote his daughter's talent, and to search for an advantageous marriage.
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The Jungle Prince of Delhi: For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital.
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This neat tailoring trick was adopted by fashionable French aristocrats (who called it a cravat), and the bow tie quickly gained popularity in 18th and 19th century France.
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Still, there are at least a few aristocrats whom Short is happy to defend, if only because they offered a brief reprieve from the doom and gloom clogging airwaves.
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Clorox is part of the S&P "Dividend Aristocrats" group — companies that have increased their dividends every year for at least the last quarter century, according to Argus Research.
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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.
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Throughout, Ritter is fascinated by the recursiveness of cultural exchange, the way, for example, that Ottoman aristocrats favored European composers who were unwittingly influenced by the Turkish military march.
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Do we really need another take on the brittle, bright-eyed saga of 484th-century England's wittiest, drawliest, most written-about (by themselves and others) litter of female aristocrats?
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Jay tells tales of devious book dealers, befuddled English aristocrats, suspicions of forgery, and treasures sold like contraband in New York hotel rooms and from the trunks of cars.
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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.
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" On April 23, 2013, he addressed Rob Hiaasen, who was one of the people killed in the Thursday shooting: "Rob Hiaasen, you're one of his enabled asshole aristocrats @capgaznews.
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If in the years ahead Mr. Xi's Red Aristocrats become even more entrenched and social mobility is further obstructed by vested interests, economic exploitation will intensify, fueling class differences.
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They were soon followed by Russian Jews fleeing pogroms, and then aristocrats driven out by the Bolshevik Revolution and White Russian troops seeking refuge after defeat in civil war.
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Tillyard is a wonderfully spacious writer, and in brilliant biographies like "Aristocrats" (about the four Lennox sisters, great-grandchildren of Charles II) she gives her knowledge room to breathe.
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Now that the general will has been revealed, goes the line which Rousseauan Tories have successfully peddled, those who question it must be crushed like so many French aristocrats.
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If you do win this week's Powerball, the best thing you can probably do is sign up to spend a week alongside the world's young aristocrats and oil heirs.
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The soccer it plays stands at odds with all of the accepted axioms of the elite game; what the continent's aristocrats would regard as vices, it treats as virtues.
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In fact, the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF, which tracks the performance of high-quality dividend stocks, was up almost 8 percent this year as of Wednesday morning.
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As for how the members of the posh set feel about rubbing elbows with non-aristocrats, Meier says that most people won't mind, provided everyone is polite and well-mannered.
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The last time inequality was at these levels, aristocrats across Europe who had more in common with each other than with their own "common people" was something of a cliché.
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By contrast, the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, which is comprised of companies that have increased their annual dividends for at least 25 consecutive years, dropped only 5.8 percent.
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Miss Unknown became a subject of curiosity to other patients, then visitors, then journalists and, eventually a parade of Russian aristocrats, some proclaiming her genuine, others declaring her a fraud.
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Princess Kate and Prince William stepped out on Wednesday for a gala evening hosted by their friends, the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, at the aristocrats' stately home, Houghton Hall.
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The party differences of the aristocrats, just as in the monarchies of old, become transparent as the ruling party's band together to attack the "outsider" and protect the establishment candidate.
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Aristocrats were guillotined during the French Revolution, and new taxes were based on how wealthy people appeared — measured in part by the number of doors and windows in their homes.
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The artist — who has long dealt with queer male themes — was particularly interested in accounts of those young, bohemian aristocrats suggesting that queerness was boyish charm rather than criminal aberrance.
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Under Mr. Xi, the Red Aristocrats have gutted the lie-low-bide-time approach favored by Deng and his successors for an expansionist and hyper-nationalist position reminiscent of Mao's.
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Less than a decade later, Cornelia Bradley-Martin (who arbitrarily hyphenated her husband's name) lowered the bar to squeeze about 800 professed aristocrats into the old Waldorf Astoria on Feb.
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"Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy," Giridharadas said.
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Set to a soundtrack by the designer's friend and collaborator Thom Yorke, the show featured a series of vignettes starring different archetypes: soldiers, aristocrats, clergy members and mythical, birdlike creatures.
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The party of the commoners had just gained power from the aristocratic party in parliament, and they wanted to expose the bribes the aristocrats had received from Russia and France.
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AND IF I CAN ADD ONE OF THE THINGS I'M MOST PROUD OF, THIS IS ONLY CEOs GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS STUFF, BUT ADP IS ONE OF THE DIVIDEND ARISTOCRATS.
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It hoped, too, that sightings of Europe's aristocrats would change the attitude, but if anything, the visits in recent years of Barcelona, Bayern and Real have only reinforced the impression.
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Yes, they're probably each a billionaire: The Winklevoss twins are largely known to the public — thanks to "The Social Network" — as haughty, naïve aristocrats given their comeuppance by Mark Zuckerberg.
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" At the time, Dubuffet quipped, "Imagine some peasants putting their little daughter in the hands of some aristocrats and returning to see the little girl two or three years later.
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At the time, the People's Republic of China and other socialist states found it difficult or impossible to gain IOC acceptance, since the IOC was almost entirely run by Western aristocrats.
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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.
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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.
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And what we are asking you for is to move to one of the lunar villages where the aristocrats live, to take care of the animals bred there, synthetic and not?
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Like Lubitsch, Iosseliani works under a peculiar idea of civilization, refusing to distinguish between aristocrats, thieves, and tramps so long as they maintain a certain endearing — if faintly ridiculous — noblesse oblige.
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The benchmark S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, for example, has pumped out 9.91 percent annual returns for the past 10 years versus only 6.93 percent for the S&P 2.43.
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It was no accident that Buckley liked to keep company with European aristocrats like Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who often argued in the pages of the magazine for monarchism.
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Since the Enlightenment, Russia's ruling class had debated whether to westernize, and foreign kibitzers were divided over whether and how to extend civilization to Russia's feudal society of aristocrats and serfs.
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Readers of Leo Tolstoy's epic war-time novel about Russian aristocrats may recall that Natasha (full name: Countess Natalya "Natasha" Ilyinichna Rostov) is only 12 years old when the story begins.
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The Tony-winning actors Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber will be the latest scheming aristocrats sparring over love and revenge when a British production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" transfers to Broadway.
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We have a ton in common personality-wise, but differ widely on issues of lifestyle preference: She hates anything mildly offensive, I just went to see "The Aristocrats" and loved it.
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The civil service exam was a staple of Chinese governance for more than 53,000 years, leading to the rise of a gentry class of bureaucrats who supplanted aristocrats with inherited privileges.
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Marina ticks all the boxes for the prototypical heroine of novels set in this period: Her parents are liberal aristocrats, while she is a radical poetess — gorgeous, red-haired and curvaceous.
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Mr. Serra's choice to set the entire 150-minute play in a secluded field populated with aristocrats who rarely leave their ornate sedan chairs produces the theatrical equivalent of rigor mortis.
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Mr. Gendel's work for ARTnews (and another publication, Art in America) continued for many more years, as did the gatherings at his apartments that he rented in palazzos from various aristocrats.
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Bishop Curry's enthusiastic address, spoken before British aristocrats and royalty (as well as American celebrities) was an electrifying and unexpected moment in what could have been a by-the-book ceremony.
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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.
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Mr. Brzezinski, a descendant of Polish aristocrats (his name is pronounced Z-BIG-nyehv breh-ZHIHN-skee), was a severe, even intimidating figure, with penetrating eyes and a strong Polish accent.
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TFOR Two Italian chefs, Stefano Crialesi, who trained with Gualtiero Marchesi, and Riccardo Di Rocca, who was a personal chef for Italian aristocrats, are in the kitchen at this new place.
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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.
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During the Renaissance, wealthy merchants and aristocrats exhibited their personal compendiums of mastodon bones, fossils and all manner of dried, pickled and stuffed creatures in what were called cabinets of curiosity.
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The companies to focus on — those that the bank called "dividend aristocrats" in a note to clients — are those that have boosted their dividends in each of the last 10 years.
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Still, "Peculiar Ground," with its witches and aristocrats, its highly educated men, women and children, and its gradations of every conceivable social type between upstairs and downstairs, is a grand spectacle.
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The wildest speculation is that the crown prince is still deciding whether or not he wants the job—or that aristocrats inside the court are trying to persuade him to decline it.
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Georgie and Poppy Carlton, those wacky, whimpering British aristocrats played by Ed Gamble and Amy Hoggart, continue their unofficial royal tour of the United States and document the whole thing on YouTube.
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Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye By Jack Ridl We went out for dinner, downsome lackadaisical alley, threadingour way among leftover handshakes, sleepingformer aristocrats, and scattered scrapsof newsprint still holding words againstthe wind.
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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.
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In the novel's third section, Francesca, the spirited, beautiful daughter of aristocrats in Evert Dax's set, asks Johnny if he'll donate sperm so that she and her girlfriend can have a child.
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The seafront Promenade des Anglais, where 84 people were killed on Thursday night as they celebrated Bastille day, is named after the English aristocrats who helped make Nice a popular holiday spot.
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Sarah and Eleanor's apparent conservatism and popularity among aristocrats—including daily prayers for the king—are the primary reasons some modern scholars argue that they were never lovers in the physical sense.
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It's a fitting tribute to their growing domain, which includes seven boisterously decorated drinking dens frequented by young aristocrats (among them Prince William and Prince Harry) and celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie).
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" He adds, "merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather—like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime—a pretense, constructed to rationalize an unjust distribution of advantage.
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From 3313 euros a night (about $362) This 225-room hotel is comprised of 25 connecting canal houses built by wealthy merchants and aristocrats 400 years ago during the Dutch Golden Age.
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Of the available options, Daenerys's plan to break the wheel was the best one, and the clique of aristocrats that overthrew her has done nothing but condemn Westeros to anarchy and misgovernment.
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Founded by a pair of German princes and Spanish aristocrats, Marbella became a splashy and scandal-rich playground for royals, multimillionaires and celebrities in the 212s, the golden era of Arab tourism.
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England: According to "Who Owns England," a book to be published in May, less than 1 percent of the population — including aristocrats, royals and wealthy investors — owns about half of the land.
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Over five seasons, we watched a group of spoiled and charmingly deluded aristocrats get one sharp reality check after the other, and grow into kinder, more genuine human beings along the way.
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Democrats must chart a path away from the one that led to Trump's election in the first place, and that cannot be done by locking America into a battle between competing aristocrats.
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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.
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Early practitioners of breaking were generally youth from the same kind of marginalized communities as the South Bronx, a stark contrast to ballroom dancing's origins as a form of social dance for aristocrats.
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Divine beings can do so (if you believe in Horus how possible is it to imagine a time when the god did not exist?), but aristocrats are typically defined by their historical contexts.
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They tended to be wealthy young British aristocrats whose fathers had a castle and who devoted their 20s to parties and being photographed at social gatherings, rather than working a nine-to-five.
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Indeed, Disraeli inspired a movement of young aristocrats called Young England who were supposed to try to put his ideas into practice, by campaigning to improve the appalling working conditions in England's factories.
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She led the campaign to raise $2100 million to build a new one, donating $22014 million herself and sweet-talking or strong-arming the balance through her deep connections to Northern California's aristocrats.
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THE LITTLE FOXES Both Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon will play the scheming and ruthless Regina Hubbard Gibbons in a revival of Lillian Hellman's 228 drama about cutthroat Southern aristocrats in 225 Alabama.
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Once reserved for aristocrats and the ultra-wealthy in the 19th century, the tradition has morphed into wearing paper hats and bibs with crayfish motifs, and downing aquavit while belting out drinking songs.
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Once again, there's needless talk of whether to keep Downton and continue living as aristocrats of a bygone era, and once again the discussion is tabled for the future Granthams to deal with.
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Recently, Conservatives have focused their criticism on the European Union's farming and forestry subsidy system, which has put aristocrats, the royal family and wealthy investors among the top recipients of taxpayer-funded aid.
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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.
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History shows that those who haven't had to work — aristocrats, say — have often spent their time entertaining and developing their artistic and sporting talents while scrupulously observing elaborate rituals of dress and manners.
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In Britain before about 1700, almost the only long-distance travellers on the roads were aristocrats, soldiers, judges, priests and tax collectors, together with a small number of sailors plying coastal sea routes.
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CARDIFF (Reuters) - Real Madrid's irresistible attack slams into Juventus's seemingly immovable defense on Saturday when the free-scoring Spanish aristocrats hope to become the first club to win the Champions League in successive seasons.
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Confidence artists are the "aristocrats of crime", writes Maria Konnikova in "The Confidence Game", a fascinating look at the psychology behind every hustle, from Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme to a three-card-monte game.
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From ancient Samurai warriors to the luscious curls of seventeenth-century European aristocrats, bros across the globe have been sporting long hair since well before our infatuation with the hipster man bun of today.
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This was equally true for prostitutes, who, although of lesser standing than courtesans, were still among the most elite women in society and the social equals of aristocrats, scholars, government officials, and the like.
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At 0.45, the ratio of the aristocrats index to the S&P is well above its average of 0.4 and just a hair below its all time high of 0.46, touched earlier this month.
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It does not have one of the strongest leagues in the world, one in which most clubs rely on selling young players, for a premium, to the aristocrats and parvenus of England and Spain.
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In propagating the radical and unbridled pursuit of erotic pleasure against all social, religious and moral restraints, the licentious aristocrats seek to establish a sexual utopia that challenges the prevailing forces of the Enlightenment.
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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.
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At her main public forum in Rostov, she cited the Decembrists, a group of early-19th-century aristocrats exiled for trying to challenge the absolute power of the czar, as one of her inspirations.
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Blase, a French artist, filled this role by repurposing old portraits of aristocrats with a sardonic twist, adorning them with beauty queen sashes and MAGA hats and exposing sex abuses in the Catholic Church.
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Ready or Not, on the other hand, has been marketed more like an Agatha Christie drawing-room mystery, with cartoonish aristocrats romping around an old-timey mansion filled with secret passages and loyal servants.
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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.
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In case you missed it: For 40 years, journalists chronicled the tragic, astonishing story of the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined royal hunting lodge in India's capital.
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Meanwhile, a third resident starts systematically raping and beating a fourth; Royal and his aristocrats react by grumbling that the rapist is assaulting a woman above his level, and suggest forcing Laing to lobotomize him.
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Courtyard houses were designed for itinerant traders that came in and out of Lhasa, while the single-family homes (Khang-pa) were built for craftsmen and retired officials, or even as summer homes for aristocrats.
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Ashford Castle in western Ireland has been inhabited for centuries by aristocrats (including the Guinness family, of brewing renown) and visited by luminaries like King George V, Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco.
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But its theatricality, both of the showy, expensive kind (rising and falling chandeliers, mysterious mirrors and underground lagoons) and of the more potent, elemental kind (obsessive love and beautiful sopranos and virtuous aristocrats), remains intact.
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A 1957 image of a Chinese woman wearing a long black cape trimmed with white fur captures the remnants of the late-1950s bourgeoisie (Riboud himself describes the figure as "one of the last aristocrats").
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It is famous for the family's decision, when many other British aristocrats were passing expensive-to-run stately homes to a heritage charity, to retain ownership and open their ancient seat as a tourist attraction.
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But Vanity Fair, with its fixation on actors, moguls and faded aristocrats, was a product of its editor's highly particular interests: the golden age of Hollywood, the rituals of WASPdom, the European jet set, Anglophilia.
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Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. It was a remarkable moment: A relaxed, charismatic African-American bishop, speaking to British aristocrats in the cadence of the black American church.
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Here was a relaxed, charismatic African-American bishop — Michael Bruce Curry, the head of the Episcopal Church — speaking to British aristocrats and members of the royal family in the cadence of the black American church.
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Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. It was a remarkable moment: a relaxed, charismatic African-American bishop, speaking to British aristocrats in the cadence of the black American church.
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It was a welcome change to find my eyes glued not to the endlessly frustrating loop of the Krebs cycle, but instead to a portrait of 19th-century aristocrats in top hats and ball gowns.
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" Mr. Gaiman, 56, said he approached the myths as a musician might do if recording cover versions of 1950s folk songs, or as the comedians do with the central joke in the movie "The Aristocrats.
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Fillon is seen in much of the French news media as a victim in the scandal — perhaps exploited by a husband of modest means whose social circle nonetheless included moneyed aristocrats and others of wealth.
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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.
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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.
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One might fairly expect any publication of his to contain at least a smattering of aristocrats-behaving-badly stories, like the ones Mr. Carter used to find in foreign newspapers to pursue for Vanity Fair.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Exceedingly wealthy, the royalty of the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) lived indulgently, and these aristocrats were determined to enjoy their accustomed luxuries in the afterlife as well.
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The platform — named for the wealthy aristocrats who funded Renaissance artists — has attracted a growing community of podcasters, artists, writers, and game developers looking for an alternative to the scale-hungry world of advertising-supported media.
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I was holding the badge in my hand and I thought how those aristocrats could possibly live their endless Christmas on the Moon at the government expense while we were literally dying because of the heat.
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His family, the Youngs, are the biggest developers in Singapore, not to mention key players in the Hong Kong finance world, personal friends with some of England's most distinguished aristocrats, and members of several royal families.
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Of course, for the majority of Harry and Meghan's big day, these media outlets' cameras were trained on the guests: the royals; the periphery royals; the aristocrats, billionaires, and heirs; David Beckham and the Oprah Winfrey.
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Now there's something that's available to everyone that was only available to them, in that sense, yes —but is taking an Instagram selfie now the equivalent of what aristocrats were doing that John Berger writes about?
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He had taken up the cello by this point, and, although he was, by his own admission, "hopeless," the art master arranged for him to give recitals at the weekend house parties of local Scottish aristocrats.
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The Mediterranean island nation, situated between Sicily and Tunisia, counts among its unwelcome guests the Romans, the Ottomans, Napoleon and, in the early 99403th century, hundreds of Russian aristocrats fleeing the fall of the czarist autocracy.
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That barrier is a recommended free audio guide whose moderately nifty engineering (a binaural stereo technology oversold as "3-D" sound) hardly compensates for its insulting soundtrack of actors portraying awe-struck ambassadors and gossiping aristocrats.
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"Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy," Mr. Giridharadas said on MSNBC on Sunday morning.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 62-year-old, Tanzanian-born artist whose creations include dinner plates painted with vomiting aristocrats is one of a new breed of nominee for British art's high-profile Turner Prize: an over-50.
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Someone among Melville's ragged kin of landed aristocrats and wayward seamen and scheming bankrupts and gloomy widows destroyed the author's letters to his mother along with nearly all of his letters to his brothers and sisters.
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It's like a garden out of Fragonard, and while the 21st-century customers don't quite look like French aristocrats, at least their hard modern edges will be blurred away by an impossibly warm honey-colored light.
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The study's findings that Mr. Darcy probably had a pale complexion and a long oval face were in keeping with the qualities associated with wealth and privilege during Austen's time because aristocrats usually avoided the sun.
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I walked through the rest of the gallery — it was quiet, before opening time when, among the generals and aristocrats on the walls, I came across a captivating painting of Yarrow Mamout, a freed Muslim slave.
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Sometimes Genji, the eponymous hero, a handsome prince, seems spiritually akin to the aristocrats in Saint-Simon's account of Louis XIV's French court or, indeed, to the men in Louis Auchincloss's novels of 20th-century Americans.
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Over its three decades of operation until it became state run, the business received commissions from aristocrats across the continent and even further afield, from members of the Habsburg court to nobility in the Ottoman Empire.
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And then another couple of hundred on Thierry Tilly, a law-school dropout who took millions off a family of French aristocrats by convincing them that he could protect their fortune from "sinister" forces (Jews, Freemasons, etc.).
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Europa League aristocrats Sevilla's dream of a first appearance in the Champions League quarter-finals turned sour as Samir Nasri was sent off shortly before Steven N'Zonzi's 80th-minute penalty was saved by Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel.
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Through secret police files, classified archives and interviews with Dutch survivors who knew Audrey and her family, Matzen reveals how Ella, like some aristocrats in the 1930s, had fallen for Hitler's nationalism and promises of economic prosperity.
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The six-episode, hour-long series will reportedly invite viewers inside the exclusive lives of young royals and aristocrats from around the globe, as well as provide access to the cast's lavish family homes and elite circles.
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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".
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Bookshelf Ward McAllister became the arbiter of Gilded Age society in 1888 when he defined the Four Hundred — supposedly the number of true aristocrats in New York, which also happened to match the number of people Mrs.
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Inbox To the Sports Editor: Re "Inside the Royal Box at Wimbledon: Astronauts and V.I.P. Strawberries," July 16: I read in this article that only aristocrats, stars and royals are invited to sit in this hallowed place.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.
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As for Mr. Irwin, who visited Pompeii as a child, the find was moving, and he found a comparison between the mosaic floor and the luxury carpets he designs for what he called "the Roman aristocrats of today."
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Seashell beads were worn by both cave men and cave women, Renaissance portraits show aristocrats of both genders wearing jewelry to communicate their status and power and, in India, the maharajahs' jewelry usually outshone that of the maharanis.
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A dozen pornographic drawings by the French artist Claude-Louis Desrais depict bewigged aristocrats in acrobatic ménages à trois (or more than trois), and three of them feature scenes of sadomasochism, the 18th-century sex practice par excellence.
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But Saariaho and Maalouf's treatment has deep roots in a much more modern musical world, that of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" and Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," operas in which ardent aristocrats make ocean journeys and seek ideal love.
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Mickey is now the smartly tailored kingpin of a successful marijuana empire, growing and distributing a potent hybrid of two strains of cannabis out of shipping containers placed on property he leases from down-on-their luck aristocrats.
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For the Seattle team, the Patricks poached the top players from the National Hockey Association, the precursor to the N.H.L., and the Toronto Hockey Club, and scooped up misbehaving stars booted from P.C.H.A. rivals like the Victoria Aristocrats.
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She might have briefly dated Prince William years ago, but since marrying, she definitely became part of his elite crew, known as, ahem, the Turnip Toffs— a group of British aristocrats who live near one another in the country.
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The world's oldest political offices are all related to the monarch's physical needs—looking after his horse or falcons, or guarding his bedchamber—and were usually reserved for members of his own family or the most blue-blooded aristocrats.
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Private McMansion-style neighborhoods protected by armed guards have popped up across the country, and freshly minted aristocrats navigate the potholed streets in foreign-made luxury cars, dining at restaurants where the cuisine rivals that found in Western capitals.
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Unlike Meghan's scripted show Suits, Dooley is staring in an unscripted series following the lives of young royals and aristocrats as they come together for one summer to live in the English countryside and have their every move filmed.
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Especially if they could offer a decent shoot, wine cellar and some wealthy offspring to marry off to the children of aristocrats who were too odd, ugly or stupid to be found employment in the clergy or the army.
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His breakthrough movie, "The Lobster" (2015), deployed a deadpan calm, but there's nothing remotely subtle about the fat man in "The Favourite," naked and giggling, who is pelted with oranges by a braying bunch of aristocrats, in slow motion.
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It hardly sounds revolutionary by today's standards to bring back kings — though the leadership vacuum left in the wake of Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 turned out to be more tyrannical than the aristocrats Cromwell and his allies deposed.
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Of course, it's no coincidence that Parliament and the monarch's calendars are well synced (the Queen does have to open Parliament, after all), and the Season is just a happy social benefit of having so many aristocrats in one place.
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This holds true, especially if the world's "excellent foppery" — Edmund's wry description of the appearance-obsessed, superficial aristocrats around him — makes it a stage where reality can be easily manipulated by anyone, with or without a senile king on the throne.
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For instance, the sand and stone garden is based on the aesthetic principle known as yohaku-no-bi, " the beauty of blank space," while the strolling pond garden was popularized by aristocrats and feudal lords during the Edo period (1603-1867).
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An alternative strategy would be State Street's S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index, which comprises the 50 highest dividend-yielding constituents of the S&P Composite 1500 Index that have increased dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
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But Trump is so deeply weird, so vain, so scattered, so oddly affected, that he really does conjure a question that has vexed subjects, aristocrats, parliaments, and royal courts for millennia: What to do about the madness of a king?
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Mr. Terry, a Havana native who inherited a sugar fortune, spent most of his career in France, working for and befriending aristocrats, industrialists and intellectuals like Salvador Dalí, the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein and the illustrator and set designer Christian Bérard.
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Plenty of those traveling supporters might have envisaged their team taking on Barcelona or Real Madrid, one of the aristocrats, instead of the Belgian champion — a club of stolidly proletarian mien housed in an unlovable concrete monolith of a stadium.
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Ambitious 17th- and 18th-century clerks changed their fortunes by mastering difficult new hands, while aristocrats wrote sloppily "as if in open proclamation of scorn for the arts by which humbler people oftentimes got their bread," Thomas De Quincey noted.
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As the opulence of the 18th century began to dissipate, Sontag suggests that the traditional aristocracy were replaced by "aristocrats of taste," a pattern that has continued to this day and allowed camp to become a tool of marginalized groups.
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The distraction in "Visitors to Versailles" comes from a recommended free audio guide whose moderately nifty engineering (a binaural stereo technology oversold as "3D" sound) hardly compensates for its insulting soundtrack of actors portraying awe-struck ambassadors and gossiping aristocrats.
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These jazz-age aristocrats were designated "bright young things" by the media, and the fact that they transgressed the strict bounds of heterosexuality was, due to their wealth and connections, considered if not entirely permissible, a charming function of youth.
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The series of portraits of perfectly-coiffed aristocrats and their children are shot through with a dose of whimsy via clown noses and jarring streaks of makeup, though the results are not so much shocking as they are lighthearted pranks.
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The last bit of dialogue, "That's the guy I was telling you about," is a punch line right up there with, "Orange you glad I didn't say banana?" or "You're not in this for the hunting, are you?" or "The Aristocrats!"
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Its central conceit: 200 years after the French Revolution, the playwright Beaumarchais is summoned to amuse the bored ghosts of the aristocrats who hover about the palace of Versailles and to use his drama to court the ghost of Marie Antoinette.
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Wrightsman had moved there in the 1950s with her husband, Charles B. Wrightsman, an Oklahoma oil tycoon who died in 1986, and held court over the years with various socialites, aristocrats, politicians and museum curators who attended her elegant soirees.
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Sanders has some of the best policies to end this circle of mass, internationalized graft—but he needs to link his principled response to these thieving aristocrats to the regimes that he has somehow felt a need to occasionally praise.
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That act of ennoblement fooled nobody—the old aristocrats knew the difference and so did your bourgeois neighbors—but it gave you license to start acting aristocratic, which, if continued long enough, began to blend seamlessly with the real thing.
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"There have been highs and lows in relations between France and Russia," Orlov told Reuters TV, noting Napoleon's failed Russia campaign in the 19th century as well as French being the language of choice for Russian aristocrats for two centuries.
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Yet when porcelain production boomed in 18th-century Europe, aristocrats drank beer from delicate ceramic tankards and poured wine from dispensers adorned with intricate details that could have been easily snapped off by someone too many drinks past his limit.
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In their libretto, Adès and his collaborator Tom Cairns follow the plot of Buñuel's film closely: a group of aristocrats return from a night at the opera to a lavish mansion from which the servants have mostly fled, apparently without cause.
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According to historian Robert Charles Davis, the battagliole was, at times, an orchestrated brawl involving city magistrates and aristocrats designed to entertain visiting note worthies, including England's King Henry VIIl, who distained the fights as not quite war, but too bloody for sport.
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Several years later when she was telling her version of "The Aristocrats" joke for our movie of that name, she kept asking me -- while we were rolling -- who had done the dirtiest, most disgusting, depraved, version of the joke we'd recorded so far.
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This is true of a gallery devoted to fanciful "divine heads," including one of a doleful Cleopatra, that the middle-aged artist made as gifts for young male aristocrats — Gherardo Perini, Andrea Quaratesi, Tommaso de' Cavalieri — on whom he had developed crushes.
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One of the most sought-after silversmiths of his time, the multiskilled Valadier oversaw a busy workshop that supplied popes, aristocrats and visiting royalty with objects and statues for high altars, private chapels and the most lavish of libraries and dinner tables.
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Right-o. The moment a character in a British novel craves country life, gleeful readers know what to expect: the doddering, besotted aristocrats; the grand old manor decaying; the local folk toothless perverts; even the animals not pleasingly pastoral but randy and repulsive.
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Whether that meant adopting Hapsburg military standards, acceding rights to local aristocrats or accepting the economic expertise and political contacts of former Austro-Hungarian officials, cutting loose from the past was never going to be as easy as the nationalists had claimed.
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The young aristocrats in ''The Tale of Genji'' savored tsubaki mochi, rice cakes pressed between camellia leaves, as they gazed at blossoming cherry trees, and today wagashi is still the necessary accessory to any of Japan's seemingly endless calendar of special occasions.
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When Kate Middleton was dating Prince William, tabloids quoted unnamed aristocrats mocking the bride's mother, Carole, a former flight attendant, as a grasping member of the middle class, and said some of Prince William's friends had whispered "doors to manual" when Mrs.
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" Anthony Kronman, a professor and former law dean whose new book "The Assault on American Excellence" calls for elite universities to unapologetically embrace their traditional role as havens for humanist "aristocrats of the spirit," said he finds Mr. Markovits's diagnosis "deeply convincing.
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For much of the movie, Tom will butt heads with his willful son, Tommy (Jack Lowden), whose golfing talent soon outpaces his father's and whose aversion to forelock-tugging angers the aristocrats who sponsor their tournaments — and pocket most of the winnings.
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Although its menu celebrates both their heritages, its name belongs to hers: Karu means "to eat" in Guaraní, the indigenous language spoken throughout Paraguay by peasants and aristocrats alike and declared equal to Spanish by the Constitution, defying the legacy of the conquistadors.
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Mr. Bourne is a master of surface style, and the abundance and variety of pastiche dance — from the stiff, hoppy ridiculousness of aristocrats to awful music hall numbers to an ample survey of between-the-wars ballet — is another pleasure, especially for connoisseurs.
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Nobles, aristocrats, princes, kings and queens believed they had the divine right to rule the poor and boy did they, taxing and exploiting them and ensuring things stayed the same for their spawn by passing their titles down to their (male) heirs via bloodlines.
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Whether it's a new conspiracy theory about the plays actually being written by aristocrats -- usually pushed by snobs who think middle-class people can't be geniuses -- or a ghoulish tale about a missing skull, here's how to select the serious Shakespeare scholarship from the salacious.
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So for years, locals contented themselves with the traditional way of things: unlike the aristocrats of Paris, who ate sweet breakfasts of pastries, bread, and jam, Northerners ate hearty morning meals complete with meat and cheese, and Maroilles tartines were a key component of this.
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"The Dividend Aristocrats index beat the market three out of four times during rate tightening and during mega meltdowns, said Sam Stovall, US equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ. "If the stock market is the amusement park, dividend stocks are the merry-go-round.
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The other power centers in the society -- hereditary aristocrats (lords), landowners, clergy, merchants, lawyers, judges and others -- clustered in Parliament and fought for the idea that the king ruled under the law with an obligation to serve the whole kingdom, not merely his personal interests.
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His vision, which began with a small circle of European aristocrats and later crossed the Atlantic to Fifth Avenue, remains synonymous with an aesthetic that requires from clients not merely a great deal of money, but a depth of knowledge and a leap of imagination.
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But she also deals realistically with the troubles of the era's women, from aristocrats blocked by the rules of primogeniture from inheriting their family lands and titles to impoverished mothers worn out from giving birth to too many children, who are now dying of hunger.
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"Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats," by James Reginato and photographer Jonathan Becker, longtime chroniclers of the rich and famous, does not disappoint, providing an insiders' portrait of 16 extraordinarily maintained residences belonging to such tenacious tenants as the Prince of Wales and the fourth Baron Rothschild.
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Stevens is perfectly fine as the harried scribe, and those who have seen "A Christmas Carol" a few dozen (if not hundreds) of times should derive amusement from encounters with callous aristocrats or random folks with unusual names that found their way into Dickens' tomes.
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This is a very logical idea that would be a no-brainer in any other part of our supposedly capitalist society, but of course, we're talking about college football, which is somehow different because 19th Century English aristocrats made up the concept of amateurism.
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BECOV NAD TEPLOU, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Proving the adage 'well worth the wait', experts enjoyed a rare taste of fine wines from the 19th century, discovered under the floorboards of a Czech castle in a treasure hunt that pitted Communist-era police against aristocrats.
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She nimbly pings between arcane, medieval and modern sources, assembling a cast of characters that includes unhinged aristocrats, ill-fated adventurers, Thomas Jefferson, Julius Caesar, Sigmund Freud, the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and more than a few mad scientists.
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This vivacious exhibition uses Casanova, Venice's most famous lover boy and the author of a 3,700-page autobiography, as a contextualizing force for gloriously ornate furniture and costumes, not to mention paintings of amorous aristocrats and pornographic drawings of lovers in laugh-out-loud configurations.
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This vivacious exhibition uses Casanova, Venice's most famous lover boy and the author of a 2212,2570-page autobiography, as a contextualizing force for gloriously ornate furniture and costumes, not to mention paintings of amorous aristocrats and pornographic drawings of lovers in laugh-out-loud configurations.
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" The idea of making personalized fashion and accessories is not new, he wrote: "It was not rare for French aristocrats before the French Revolution to get customized jewelry or wigs (for example), and later also for the bourgeoisie (think for example of unique, personalized timepieces).
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In particular, Goethe—that son of the Frankfurt bourgeoisie, who was given an ennobling "von" by the prince he served—wants to show how a middle-class man like Wilhelm can find dignity and worth in a society whose ideals are still shaped by aristocrats.
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Prince Ernst-August Jr. of Hanover — whose stepmother is Princess Caroline of Monaco — is set to wed Russian-born, Czech-raised Ekaterina Malysheva in a massive televised religious ceremony on Saturday, part of 10 days of planned festivities expected to draw dozens of young royals and aristocrats.
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For a guy so complicit in his own myth-making, it's hard to separate the man from all the anecdotes about hanging out on Filipino drug islands with exiled aristocrats, or losing wads of hundred dollar bills down airplane toilets—and it would be foolish to try.
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They come up with these pursuits and poncey affectations and delicacies that seem, from the outside, not just strange but actively perverse, the result of too much comfort and too little, uh, whatever it is that keeps non-aristocrats from boiling tiny songbirds alive in armagnac.
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Paying off the downwardly mobile aristocrats whose family name is already there, ostensibly in perpetuity, Axe first promises them $25 million to revoke their naming privilege and then breaks the news, humiliatingly in front of the institution's director, that in fact he will pay only $9 million.
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When amateurism was fashioned out of whole cloth by Victorian-era English aristocrats, its ethos was strictly classist: snobby upper-class rowers didn't want to compete against unwashed bricklayers and factory workers, and concocting an ersatz Greek athletic ideal of no-pay-for-play provided convenient justification.
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But a researcher says that after years of digging, he has an answer: Less than 23 percent of the population — including aristocrats, royals and wealthy investors — owns about half of the land, according to "Who Owns England," a book that is to be published in May.
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The new Amazon series "Fearless" is a solid, atmospheric but unsurprising exercise in a British perennial: the old-boy's-club conspiracy thriller, in which an ordinary bloke discovers that the aristocrats and technocrats who run the country will go to murderous lengths to cover up their indiscretions.
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He depicted politics as "the kind that masked aristocrats played to entertain themselves at 19th-century parties: Everyone was both pawn and player, engaged in a set of arcane maneuvers to win an empty jackpot that ultimately meant nothing of true importance," Eve Fairbanks wrote for us recently.
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Halperin wrote about Washington like it was an intriguing game, the kind that masked aristocrats played to entertain themselves at 19th-century parties: Everyone was both pawn and player, engaged in a set of arcane maneuvers to win an empty jackpot that ultimately meant nothing of true importance.
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Known for her ladylike but contemporary designs, Wickstead is a favorite of sister Kate and was the recent designer of choice for Lady Charlotte Wellesley (a descendent of Queen Victoria) at her lavish society wedding in Spain recently attended by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and other European aristocrats.
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They felt no need to defend the less overtly odious Baratheons, Starks, or lesser houses at all — "It's Westeros!" sufficed to justify their support of feudal aristocrats who routinely lead thousands of peasants to their deaths in order to secure the latest blood claim to this or that castle.
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There was that beautiful girl, killing time in the big city while her fiancé was away; the ill-advised flirtation with a dreamy playboy; the unhappily married rich man starting to fall apart; the swirl of back-stabbing aristocrats, Russia at war, and a comet streaking across the sky.
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The idea that Lensky and Onegin might be lovers has been floated in earlier productions, not least in an absurd 2007 staging by Krzysztof Warlikowski for the Bayerische Staatsoper that borrowed from the film "Brokeback Mountain" and turned the world of Russian aristocrats into that of gay cowboys.
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Elizabeth stares at him, jaw clenched in a disdain so pure it's hard to imagine it could ever be matched — until he turns around and sees the rest of the room packed with aristocrats only barely containing their pity for the weak man draped in furs before them.
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Mr. Malloy, who wrote both the book and the score (and originally played Pierre), doesn't shy away from using brash, slangy language and an eclectic array of music — including a burst of thundering electronica — to bring alive a love story set among Russian aristocrats of a distant era.
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The cafe has served the kings of both Spain and Sweden; the Grand Duke of Luxembourg; former Secretary-General to the United Nations, Kofi Annan; punk rock legend Patti Smith; numerous actors and filmmakers, such as Daniel Auteuil and Jim Jarmusch; and dozens of mid-20th-century aristocrats.
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The rest of the field, including former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine, Orlando businessman Chris King, and billionaire real estate investor Jeff Greene, Gillum cast as aristocrats likely to lose to Republicans in the fall because of their lack of ability to excite and connect with the party's base of voters.
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The war had been waged and won on the British monarch's behalf by the British East India Company (EIC) — a multinational owned by aristocrats and wealthy merchants which commanded huge private armies, took responsibility for administering the colony, and at one point was responsible for half of the world's trade.
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This fall, a number of designers are offering new takes on the so-called British heritage patterns, so you can wear classic tweeds without the sartorial inconveniences once endured, stiff-upper-lip style, by aristocrats as they dashed hither and thither in the wake of this or that frightened fox.
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At the beginning of the Renaissance, in the 16th century, aristocrats and scholars began to fill rooms with exotic artifacts from far-flung territories — horns said to have belonged to unicorns, brilliant red coral, animal skeletons, chalices made of silver or coconut shells — often displayed among Old Master paintings and sculptures.
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While many of the portraits from this period incorporate the cropped perspectives and jagged linearity in Japanese woodcuts of aristocrats and courtesans, they just as often borrow heavily from the hyper-individualized, introspective examples of the Dutch Golden Age portraiture of Rembrandt and Vermeer, painters van Gogh had long admired.
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But their example suggested that an aristocratic spirit was transferable to a more diverse elite, that there could be Catholic and African-American and Jewish aristocrats — like, say, the family that has long stewarded this newspaper — who could adopt the WASP establishment's upper-class virtues without the ethnic and religious chauvinism.
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LONDON — The writings, etched in dark ink on a small scroll, tell the sordid story of four debauched aristocrats who lock themselves away in a castle to play out their wildest sexual fantasies, which run the gamut from orgies and animals to torture — including placing a firework up a bottom.
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Though the nattily attired dandies and haughty aristocrats (for the most part) have faded into history, their mansions have survived offering would-be bons vivants and lovers of 2390th-century French literature the kind of accommodations that recall the raconteur-filled salons chronicled in the novels of Honoré de Balzac.
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The celebrity-filled ceremony featured a gospel choir and a sermon by Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. His speech was a striking moment: Here was a relaxed, charismatic African-American bishop, speaking to British aristocrats in the cadence of the black American church.
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And so the incident can simply be regarded as one more chapter in the ongoing power struggle at the senior-most levels of the C.C.P., between Mr. Xi and Mr. Jiang — or, as I put it recently, between the head of the Red Aristocrats and the leader of the Plebeians.
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As I read the words written thousands of years ago by ancient men, and then whispered by centuries of spice merchants and shtetl dwellers, aristocrats and ghetto residents alike, I wonder what their ordeals were, and realize that the bend of history is quite long, longer than any unanswered email or online controversy.
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Through the first five or six years of this bull it was led by things like low-vol investments, by dividend aristocrats, by staples stocks, and it still is being led by that… It's been an amazingly great bull, and it's never generated exceeding optimism, at least not in the stock market.
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The husband and wife established themselves in the '90s as the go-to landscape designers for aristocrats, plutocrats and royalty — their client list has included the Prince of Wales (at Highgrove), Lord Rothschild (Waddesdon Manor), John Paul Getty Jr. (Wormsley) and the Marquess of Cholmondeley (the great walled garden at Houghton Hall).
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Likewise, one could point to the fact that he never actually saw battlefield action for the SS as a mitigating factor in his service; the British Free Corps, despite its smattering of ideologues, was generally considered to be a half-hearted farce populated by hedonistic young aristocrats and opportunistic ne'er-do-wells.
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When their flighty charge takes off for a weekend at a country estate, the sleuths find themselves in a manor house mystery amusingly fitted out with chilly aristocrats, their family art collections (the Gainsborough and the Reynolds are quality goods, but "the Pre-Raphaelites are vulgar and virtually unsaleable") and their hereditary ghosts.
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The rags-to-riches plot is an intentionally improbable picaresque featuring all the glorious elements of great operas of the era: love at first sight, disguise, intrigue, grief, betrayal, secrets, scheming aristocrats, a besotted tenor, dramatic escapes, grand settings, fabulous costumes, murder, fallen women, sacrifice — the follies of humans at the mercy of Fate.
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"It has to do with the fact that she's a Dutch woman who has fallen on bad times and found herself involved in a lot of wealthy nobles and aristocrats," he continued, "who during wartime are now allocated to their relevant armies" and did not come to her defense when she was accused of spying.
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The most primitive farms are human-managed ecosystems; European aristocrats fenced off game reserves in the Middle Ages; Western American land managers have argued for more than a century over how to protect livestock from predators; and government agencies have long dumped hatchery-raised trout into streams so that we can have fun catching them.
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"If you go back to the early '70s when you had the so-called blue-collar aristocrats, those jobs have slowly crumbled away and many more men are finding themselves in a much more hostile labor market with lower wages, lower quality and less permanent jobs," the Brookings researcher Angus Deaton told NPR in 2017.
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Versailles was a meeting place for more than just French aristocrats: artists and politicians came from across Europe and from further afield, as testified to by fine French-made portraits of ambassadors from Tunisia and Vietnam, plus an intricately woven tapestry from around 0003 that depicts the massive Ottoman embassy to the French court.
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" What's more, he claimed, they wanted to discredit the Bible, eliminate prayer in schools, demean the American Founding Fathers as "selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the 'common man,'" and support "any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
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Yet, seizing on every piercing chord and astringent harmony, he also brought out boldly the contemporary elements of Poulenc's musical language, which subtly draws from diverse styles including modal French sacred music, Impressionist colorings and Neo-Classical fanfares and chorales, even sly hints of salon room insouciance during scenes in which aristocrats lament their political predicament.
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The specter of the Hollywood star and the turquoise lake's litany of notable visitors — it's served as an oasis for aristocrats since Roman times; current villa owners include Richard Branson and Madonna — can make the place seem exclusive and stuffy for travelers more accustomed to food trucks than restaurants that require a jacket and tie for dinner.
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If you answered Breitbart and Sean Hannity, he would disappear for a few weeks and re-emerge with "The Brothers Gracchi," a tale for the times about Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, two aristocrats who decided to Make Rome Great Again by rallying the common people and taking on the Acela Corridor — er, the privileged of Rome.
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The actor Allen Leech has played characters ranging from Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (on " Rome ") to Freddie Mercury's sleazily mustachioed manager (in " Bohemian Rhapsody "), but he is best known for a role that's a bit more him : Tom Branson, of " Downton Abbey ," a scrappy young Irishman living among British aristocrats in an era of British-Irish angst.
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In October, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton paid $716 million for an 80 percent stake in Rimowa, and early in the year Louis Vuitton capitalized on its association with travel with an exhibition in Paris, "Volez, Voguez, Voyagez," or "Sail, Fly, Travel," which displayed trunks used by Edwardian aristocrats alongside luggage once owned by Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor.
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