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...Tracy Chevalier’s breakaway novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the blue and yellow head cloth that servant girl Griet insists on wearing when she poses for her master, Johannes Vermeer, becomes the unforgettable element of allure in her portrait...
...hear it can hear it on iTunes. But you know people are listenin' to it, likin' it. Every now and then somebody don't like it, but that's okay. Similar to years ago, when the hippie thing come out and I started growin' my hair and puttin' the earring in, I got a little flak here and there...
...advances of Jonathan RhysMeyers, playing a character who may soon be her brother-in-law. She was, at the time, 19, and although she had been acting in movies for a decade, she had more often been a chastely yearned for object (Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring) than an active participant in a dark romance...
...that.”She also professes some similarities to her damaged-goods character. “In every character I play there’s some aspect of myself,” she says. As the undervalued assistant to Vermeer in “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” she identified with her sense of longing, and for her role as Charlotte in “Lost in Translation,” it was a sense of displacement.“In this case I was very intrigued by the desperation of my character...
...wine vessel, were welcomed and valued at the cosmopolitan capital, Xi'an. When the Tang dynasty disintegrated, the northern Khitan tribe established the Liao dynasty around Beijing. It is represented here by two extraordinary gilded funeral masks - you can tell which one is the woman by her headgear and earring. The renovation gives the Cernuschi more exhibition space - the area for special shows is currently devoted to a collection of celadons (green-glazed pottery) from six provincial Chinese museums. It also gains improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details...