Word: buckingham
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...asks questions (there’s a lot of crime in New York too, ain’t there) in a cockney accent, not the sort known to be particularly chatty with out-of-towners. She reveals: “There’s that London [gesturing perhaps towards Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square] but there’s also this London [nodding at the drunk in the shadows]. And after 11, there’s another city entirely...
...first visits here, on holiday (not vacation!) were no less mythic than these imagined landscapes. I spent my time strolling around the secretive gardens of Westminster, pressing my camera against the iron of Buckingham Palace, throwing my lanky frame around an exorbitant mega-disco, spinning dumbly at the continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold...
...week after the pictures were published, a soldier told the Mirror - and later, military police - he had witnessed prisoner beatings, and he repeated the claims on British TV Friday night. Several other soldiers told the Mirror similar stories. Morgan, 39, whose previous scoops included having a reporter infiltrate Buckingham Palace as a footman for two months just before George W. Bush came to stay there, might have gone too far this time - but no one was betting this irrepressible tabloid star would not bounce back. - By Helen Gibson Stop Press NORWAY A strike by nearly 3,000 journalists...
...tracks before one of Liu Xiao Xian's startling Lamda prints. For Liu's Home series, the Beijing-born, Sydney-based artist has Photoshopped Chinese family portraits before painted backcloths of places like the Summer Palace and Tiananmen Tower, together with larger backdrops of tourist sites such as Buckingham Palace and Sydney Harbour. With these digital dioramas of hope and home, Liu suggests photography's infinite possibilities, not its death. Here Hockney's worst nightmare is Adelaide's delight...
Maybe the recent uptick on Wall Street has motivated designers of fashion and home furnishings to go for all-out glitz again. Whatever the reason, gold is cropping up on everything from Gucci snakeskin stilettos to 18karat cappuccino machines. Trend spotter Jane Buckingham, president of Youth Intelligence, says, "Coming out of pessimistic times and recession, people are ready for a bit of luxury again, and nothing says luxury like gold...