Tag: gaudi
Barcelona
Jaume I of Aragó was one of Barcelona’s many notable figures. Descended from French and Byzantine nobility, his exotic origins were matched by an illustrious childhood spent in the thick of the Occitan struggles.
The thirteenth was the century in Europe that instigated the beginnings of a consolidation of power from which Jaume would personally profit …
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Nature’s way
My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for Gary then, one …
- Originally published: 24 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Is this me?
People born under the year of the Goat/Sheep tend to take on the role of the “good Samaritan”. The Sheep is the most feminine sign of all of the Chinese animals. Usually …
- Originally published: 2 Dec 2005 in Editorial
Enough already!
What did you expect? You pluck a porcine, no-hope loser out of some dump in Bermondsey. You take her out of her dental nurse job, you shove her into the dentist’s chair …
- Originally published: 21 Jan 2007 in Editorial
Blame it on the Bellboy
Director: Mark Herman United Kingdom, 1992 The inoffensive – often romantic – British comedy is the plat du jour of Mark Herman. His oeuvre is small potatoes compared to the smorgasbord of Working Title …
- Originally published: 19 Apr 2007 in Film
The Good Shepherd
Director: Robert De Niro United States, 2006 Matt Damon’s got a tough job here. On the one hand he needs to play the absolute stoic, for whom life-changing decisions are met wordlessly with little …
- Originally published: 16 Oct 2007 in Film
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