People - The Parnassian (Page 29)

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Jean Baudrillard and His Mad Bookcase

Jean Baudrillard and his mad bookcase. Or rather, not a bookcase at all, but some sort of book-trap. Just try reading without being buried under an avalanche of books.

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Bokassa's coronation modelled on Napoleon's, with Olivier Brice's throne and Paris's support

In 1977 the self-proclaimed Emperor of Central Africa, the dictator Bokassa I, presented the guests of honour at his coronation with gilded replicas of his own throne. Paris supported the ruler of the former French colony, who in the tenth year of his rule had decided to turn from

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Borges at the Sorbonne in 1978

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Nicholas II after the Coronation

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I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe

Richard Feynman

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Jean-Luc Godard through the lens of Hedi Slimane

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Notice to Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, architect of the Hotel Ukraina, that his case has been closed for lack of any corpus delicti: in this same case he had been sentenced to 15 years in the camps

A document from the new exhibition at the Museum of Architecture

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By the way, I know Armand Assante, who was so brilliant as Odysseus in Andrei Konchalovsky's greatest film; he used to be a frequent visitor to our parts, and one could simply walk up to him in a bar and chat in broken English

By the way, I know Armand Assante, who was so brilliant as Odysseus in Andrei Konchalovsky's greatest film; he used to be a frequent visitor to our parts, and one could simply walk up to him in a bar and chat in broken English. These days, though, this

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Fragments of Oleg Anofriev's interview from late 2014 published for his 95th anniversary

The Singing Actor. Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev was an artist whose work is familiar to every one of us. A graduate of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, he worked at the Mayakovsky Theatre and the Mossovet Theatre and appeared in a great many films, though seldom in leading roles. But

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Valery Gergiev's Concert Cancelled in Italy

On 27 July, as part of the "Summer of the King" festival, Gergiev was due to perform with the Verdi Philharmonic Orchestra of Salerno, joined by soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre. The announced programme included works by Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Maurice Ravel. Earlier, Pina Picierno, Vice-

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Alexander the Great in a Submarine

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In 1920 Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was arrested on a charge of involvement in a counter-revolutionary organisation and sentenced to three years' confinement in a concentration camp at the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow

She wrote: “My father, whose views I share, openly denounced the tsarist government and yet remained free even then. <...> I do not conceal that I am not a supporter of Bolshevism; I stated my view openly and plainly at the trial, but I have never spoken out, and