Sentences with phrase «grande dame»

Someone's killing the newly minted stars of Grandes Dames of New Orleans and reporter Paige Tourneur's on the story.

A true grande dame hotel that doesn't exhibit stuffiness and pretension.

Travelers can also now expect locally sourced cuisine at grande dames like Jamaica Inn, in Ocho Rios, and Montego Bay's Round Hill Hotel and Villas (try the Jamaican rock shrimp and pole beans with fresh mint from the resort's own organic garden).

But Selam and Lucy are kin as grande dames in the scientific reconstruction of how humans came to walk.

As Catherine Deneuve eases into grande dame roles, she has a small but key part as a great lady of the French theater.

But director Stephen Frears sketches out her tragic backstory, and Streep in grande dame mode is not to be missed.

The Ducote sisters are the true grandes dames of Athena society — intelligent, hard - working and intolerant of pretention and snobbery.

She was the indomitable grande dame of the The City's art scene, who...

Like elegant grande dames, they rise to the sky with dignity.

The great challenge came from our own grande dame Lillemor Jakobson, a textile designer with over 50 years of experience.

One by one, the most sought - after grandes dames in the rarefied world of couture clients — Schlumberger, Dodie Rosekrans, Béatrice de Rothschild, and more — showed up at Galliano's door.

This season Grandes Dames, Sturdy Gals and Artsy Cousins alike can find the shirtdress of their dreams.

It all hangs on one deal, the one piece of property, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, that no one has been able to persuade its owner, grande dame society matron Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), to sell.

Thus it was hardly surprising that Inescort would specialize in playing haughty grande dames when she went into acting.

Horrocks's phenomenal mimicry of musical grande dames... makes a splendid centerpiece for the otherwise more ordinary film built around it.

But when Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie's ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home to everyone's surprise, the plans for this year's concert start to unravel.

Dunaway, a sparkling comedian, looks gorgeous, but she's amusingly decked out in an over-the-top Ivana Trump wardrobe that's just perfect for her arch grande dame role.

Cover of the Year has to be Entertainment Weekly's courageous feature on the incomparable silver fox grande dames of Hollywood: Mirren, Dench, and Streep.

Though brisk and even a little awkward, the service offers enough time for a connection to form between Suzu and the sisters, and when Suzu's comically ostentatious grande dame mother enters the equation, their ensuing union is cemented.

But those ace movie villainesses Agnes Moorehead and Mary Astor lend some extra «Sunset Boulevard» - style grande dame atmosphere.

Avenging a betrayal to his gang, Pinkie sets out to kill a man named Fred Hale (Sean Harris), who happens to be friendly with a working - class grande dame, Ida Arnold (Helen Mirren).

Shen's elegant watercolor illustrations round out this salute to a group of distinguished grandes dames.

«What a beautiful grande dame, gorgeous face, love the fluffy coat and the intelligent eyes.

This week's Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Show broadcasts from The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, one of the great grande dame icons.

Atxen Jiménez, the gorgeous sixtysomething grande dame of Spanish gastronomy, is the magnetic star of this busy, clean - lined dining room on the... Read More

This octogenarian grande dame has never looked more beautiful — although, like many L.A. ladies, she's had some work done.

Stay: It's chockablock with adorable Victorian B&B s, but Cape May also has a beautifully renovated grande dame hotel.

InterContinental The Willard Washington D.C. Dating back to 1850, this 335 - room grande dame hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue has entertained its fair share of presidents, as well as famous writers like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.

Paris fairs It's been a year of change for the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris's once immovable grande dame of a fair.

(In haste, the Guggenheim added grandes dames Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell to the list.)

(Nevelson with her elaborate wood sculpture remained through the many decades of obscurity for Bontecou and De Feo the turbaned grande dame - magus among the New York boys» club, her dark eyelids and brows as dramatic as her large - scale work.)

Hauser & Wirth features another art world grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, whose work is at the center of the gallery's thematic presentation, which spotlights the spider, an insect that's viewed as a positive omen in Chinese culture.

Furthermore, roughly one quarter of the participants are above the age of 60, and a number of those, including Hanne Darboven (61) and On Kawara (69) are seasoned Documenta veterans — as is the show's reigning grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, who celebrates her 91st birthday this year.

Creative Time's «Bring Down the Walls» Open: 2 p.m. Saturday — 6 a.m. Sunday, and all following Saturdays through May 26, Engine Company 31 Firehouse, 87 Lafayette St.. What you should know: The art world has taken notice of the growing movement against mass incarceration, for example with New York grande dame Agnes Gund shelling out $ 100 million from the sale of a Roy Lichtenstein to support the prison - reform movement.

Their Best Art 2017 report came out on 6 December, and featured top picks by Roberta Smith (the undisputed grande dame of contemporary American art criticism), Holland Cotter (who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for art criticism), and Jason Farago (who has also written for the Guardian, NPR, the New Yorker, Artforum, and many other outlets).

«Dame Edna on Royal Tour» - Barry Humphries» grande dame entertainment at Theatre on the Square - a major retrospective of Bay Area fave Richard Diebenkorn going up at SFMOMA and Al Jarreau scat - starting the S.F. Jazz Festival.

Debutantes, socialites and grandes dames mingled and cooed over the merchandise and the swanky, newly renovated digs.

One of Paris's original grandes dames, it first opened as the Hotel Majestic in 1908 and played host to high society for several decades (including Stravinsky, Proust, Joyce and Picasso) before falling into government hands during the Second World War.

In the end, the film is probably a little too fluffy to trouble the Oscars, but Meryl in grande dame mode could be in with a chance.

She was the indomitable grande dame of the The City's art scene, who championed generations of San Francisco's artists, especially those of a conceptual bent, for nearly fifty years.

After years of shuttered decay and a seven - year rebuilding programme, Lausanne's grande dame hotel, the Royal Savoy, has officially re-opened.

Roden rose to prominence later than Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, the two grandes dames of mid-20th-century cooking in Britain.

Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

IBM Corp, once the grande dame of U.S. tech companies, spent $ 5.43 billion on R&D in the most recent year.

In his book and film series Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, Bishop Robert Barron tells how this unity of «rich and the poor, both the educated and the uneducated, both the housekeeper and the grande dame... kneeling side by side» impressed Dorothy Day when she was considering her conversion.