Word: henrys
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...ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine, an academy set up in Hanoi in 1925 by a classmate of Henri Matisse. There, the idiom was Western classical - with a dash of impressionism thrown in for modern élan. Even today, Vietnamese students at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, as the French-founded school is now known, spend an entire year sketching nude models, a rigorous exercise that has been abandoned...
...Henri Paul drunk? The accident theory relies on the jury believing that Henri Paul, the security guard who was driving the Mercedes the night of the crash, was under the influence of drink, drugs or both and lost control of the car. The murder theory depends on the jury agreeing that he was sober and that more sinister forces were responsible. On the one hand, blood tests performed on Paul's body put his blood alcohol level way over France's drink-driving limit. On the other, the same tests carried out on the same day by two different doctors...
INSIDE TRACK WENT TO BUSINESS SCHOOL WITH PPR CHAIRMAN FRANÇOIS-HENRI PINAULT...
...chairman François-Henri Pinault, who was a classmate of Hermann's in business school, insists she personifies the brand. He snatched her away from PPR rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she was running ready-to-wear at Dior, as much for her winning record as for her provenance. "Not only does Valerie have all the professional skills," Pinault says, "but she is the YSL woman. She is French, and YSL is the most French of brands. And being an active woman and by her feminine instincts, she will have ideas come...
...sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what Robert Doisneau was to Paris - a chronicler in black and white of the sooty streets and ordinary people at his city's heart. But in his consummate sensitivity to the decisive moment, Yau was sometimes reminiscent of the great Henri Cartier-Bresson, and, like the French master, carried wherever he went a 35-mm camera - in Yau's case a Voigtlander Prominent - allowing him to move and shoot unobtrusively amid the throng...