According to the violinist Joseph Joachim, he could have been a professional musician. Sometimes it was said of Sargent that he did not necessarily play all the notes but had a gift for seizing on what was essential. That in itself would have been a sign of profound musicality. - James Fenton

Like the monumental yakshas and images of warrior kings, these early standing Buddhas are massive—in some cases more than eleven feet tall. They also share with the burly yakshas that preceded them wide-open eyes, broad shoulders, muscular arms, sumo-wrestler tummies, and powerful chests. They are altogether different figures from the later images of the sensitive meditating Buddha, cross-legged and eyes downcast, with which we are familiar.

A lovely night in California, a nice Shakespeare romance to mull over in the evening hours. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Whitfield, June: gifted actress whose talents have rescued more comedy half-hours than the commercial break. -Denis Norden

Shot in 18 days on a shoestring budget, it is as concise and perfect as its constraints could make it. To said “I only knew what film making was about when making The Mission.”

Some of the best tragedians also had great comic instincts. So let it be with Morrissey. Let’s honor him by imagining him standing next to a pretty girl who doesn’t understand him, looking - bemused - at the Bay of Fundy.

Even in their own time, female folk artists were neglected, pigeonholed, in some cases deliberately held back.

The best folk songs are sincere, but restrained. They don’t admit easy answers. They speak to the real feelings of ordinary people. This is what make folk such a demanding form, and why the failure rate is so damned high.

The world was alive and changing in 1972, full of dynamic and crazy ideas, and KYAK wanted no part of it.

So we learn that the SARB aesthetic is surprisingly fragile. These watches represent a sublime balance of styling and materials, form and function. But it is such a delicate balance that any attempt to improve it just makes it worse. It turns out we must accept the SARB033 and SARB035 for what they are: perfect.

Steel – Green – Orange:

To this day, these are the characteristics of the only true “FLIEGER” – a model that first defined the world of pilot watches and is still the reference for many imitators.

About seven hours later he skied onto the Godwin-Austen Glacier, about 3,400 meters below the summit, having finished the first complete ski descent of the mountain.

It is, roughly, one part Zatoichi installment, one part postmodern western, and one part satirical meditation on the destructiveness of greed. The result, as noted by Howard Thompson In his 1971 New York Times review, is “the most unrelenting slaughterfest from Japan we have ever seen, and we have seen most of them.” He’s not wrong.

“You must obstinately keep your spiritual virginity.” He smiled. “Whatever that is.”

She wrote what?

‘So I said to her, “Listen. I’ll tell you about the Elephant & Castle audiences. Yes, they’re hard. They’re the toughest audience in the country. But let me assure you of one thing. However hard they are, they’re fair. They’ll give you a chance. Will you take my word?”

Perseverance brings good fortune.

No remorse.

The light of the superior man is true.

Good fortune.

The Austrian historian Michael Hochedlinger, describing this ‘belated great power’, put it rather neatly: a ‘splendid baroque surface, it perhaps had more of a trompe l’oeil and resembled a colossus on feet of clay, whose fate was always hanging by a thread’.

These two ideas - the deception of surface and the deceit of trompe l’oeil - were characteristic of the Habsburgs.

I’ve always undervalued Pierce because he really didn’t have a signature move, and he doesn’t seem to be doing much in the highlights. He runs around (slowly), throws a bunch of fakes, and sort-of-accidentally make the ball go in. But once you understand what he’s up to, it’s very entertaining.