Sentences with phrase «emigre in»

Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her performances in two films, «The Immigrant,» as a Polish emigre in New York, and «Two Days, One Night,» as a young mother desperate to save her job.

Not exact matches

«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

The bipartisan Senate plan would attempt to maintain TPS in return for ending or changing a «diversity» lottery program that has been aimed at allowing up to 50,000 people a year from countries with few emigres to the United States.

Palmeiro says he also leaned on the lessons he learned from his demanding father, Jose, a Cuban emigre who moved his family of five from Havana to Miami in 1971, when Rafael was seven, and later whip - cracked Rafael through the after - school workouts that produced his sweet swing and self - punishing mind - set.

The FCO has a great opportunity in London, which is just about the capital of world dissidents, to engage with emigres and learn from them what we can't find out on the ground.

The seat previously belonged to Alec Brook - Krasny, the first emigre from the former Soviet Union elected to public office in New York.

In the 1950s, for example, the French government «invited» well - known troublemakers among Russian exiles and emigres to stay in country mansions or comfortable hotels during an important visit by Soviet dignitarieIn the 1950s, for example, the French government «invited» well - known troublemakers among Russian exiles and emigres to stay in country mansions or comfortable hotels during an important visit by Soviet dignitariein country mansions or comfortable hotels during an important visit by Soviet dignitaries.

It is less interested in, but doesn't abandon completely, the more conventional thriller hugger - mugger, following the mysterious - assassin pattern, also finding time to stalk various murderous ploys and counterploys in a riven emigre community even while the dangerous arrival of the political leader to the U.N. draws closer and closer.

Unlike many of the directors on this list, German emigre Ernest Lubitsch was one of the great film artists who was recognized in his time.

We get an up - close look at her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre whose scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film, Ecstasy, caused such an enormous international uproar that even the Pope was moved to denounce it.

While the regime argues that a potential lawsuit from attorneys general in 10 states forced its hand, the reality is that federal immigration law gives it wide latitude in how it handles undocumented emigres, especially those who are children.

The reality is that Trump, whose successful campaign has been based on accusing undocumented immigrants (especially Latino emigres) of being «rapists» and «bad hombres», is engaged in a low - grade form of ethnic cleansing.

The all - American Pollock in de Kooning's phrase «broke the ice for all of us», blazed briefly, and burnt out; the Russian emigre Mark Rothko became boxed in by an introverted abstract style.

A site - specific visual environment created in the first floor gallery incorporates the personal narratives of recent emigres from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bhutan, Iraq and Cuba to create a positive, public dialogue about community, similar to the artists» previous projects in Armenia, Republic of Georgia and Romania.

Lee (Lenore) Krasner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 27, 1908, to Russian emigre parents, Joseph and Anna Krasner (Krassner).

A condensation of the earlier part of the tape includes the information that she was not a member of The Club, had not met the emigres from Europe after the war, had not known de Kooning and the other abstract expressionists, had not been influenced by them, but was very much aware of what was going on in the group around Art News.

Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who tended to paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.

Alternatively, he may have heard of experiments conducted in New York during the war, by the emigre surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), who married Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons.

Another possibility is that Pollock heard of experiments conducted in New York during the war, by the emigre surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), who married Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons.