Pop Culture - The Parnassian (Page 32)

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And what will the round-earthers make of this tortoise?

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Poster for the film “Star Wars: Episode I”, 1999

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Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac on the Place Vendôme, 1965

Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac on the Place Vendôme, 1965. Françoise Dorléac appeared alongside Deneuve in Jacques Demy's musical The Young Girls of Rochefort and in the film Where the Spies Are. Françoise was 18 months older than Catherine. Françoise Dorléac was a very well-

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I watched the new Major Grom: what is the film actually about?

In the first film, the protagonist, Igor Grom, an officer of the Saint Petersburg police, appears as a veritable Russian superman without any evident weaknesses or, as critics noted, motivation. One is left with the impression that people endowed by nature with incredible willpower and a sense of justice invariably

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Charles Aznavour's Selfie

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The Lad Tom Cruise in the USSR in 1988

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Barron Trump and Alexander the Great

Barron Trump and Alexander the Great. What? Yes

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Dress codes and the steady taste of King Philip of Spain, who was dressed by Jaime Gallo

In one interview I was asked about my attitude to dress codes. In truth, mine is simple: irrespective of the whims of event organisers, I wear whatever I consider appropriate and whatever I happen to have to hand. Remember how Anna Wintour dressed for the recent Met Gala? In a

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In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture

In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture. She listened to a performance by a contemporary band and said they had “a good beat”. True, nobody has heard of that band since

A boy in round glasses holds up a dark patterned cloak in a room with a red tapestry and armchairs.

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A meme on how the world is full of physics for those who never studied magic

So invisibility cloaks are possible thanks to nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, which bend light away from the concealed area, hiding it? As the well-known meme has it, for those who never studied magic, the world is full of physics

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A view on Joan Rowling's statement, society's reaction and Tsvetaeva's poetry

I asked Tatyana Tolstaya what she thinks of the persecution of J.K. Rowling over her much-discussed remark, and how she deals with the problem of separating the creator from the creation. On J.K. Rowling: her remark was perfectly normal, and society's reaction was utterly cretinous.

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Chanel kept Karl Lagerfeld's personal library intact after his death

Karl Lagerfeld's Art Library in Paris, on the 7th Floor of 7 Rue de Lille. Lagerfeld's personal library consists of tens of thousands of books, gathered and arranged by Karl himself. The library occupies a room beneath a large glass skylight. In the adjoining space was