Van Hove, a Belgian director who has become a much admired and much reviled figure in the New York theatre world — his 1999 interpretation of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire," for instance, featured a Blanche who played almost all her scenes in a tub — more or less follows Bergman's narrative arc.
BLANCHE: Not your complexion, your features.
LILY (offended): Middle Eastin!!?? BLANCHE: You have Middle Eastern features.
Kate Van Dike of Newton Says No, said Teignbridge District Council did not have "carte blanche to destroy every redeeming feature of every town and village".
Bulgari revolutionized fashion by giving carte blanche to society ladies to wear necklaces featuring more than two colors at a time and yellow gold to dinner parties.
(Pareles) BLANCHE (Thursday) This Detroit band's debut single featured the White Stripes frontman Jack White (who also covered a Blanche song as a B-side to his single "I Don't Know What To Do With Myself").
In Carte Blanche (2011), bestselling author Deaver, author of the bestselling series of thrillers featuring NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme, takes Bond to Serbia, Dubai and South Africa to foil a "rag and bones" waste-disposal king with an unsavoury fascination for death and decay.
At that theater Ms. Marvel and Mr. van Hove first worked together on the infamous bathtub Blanche, in which Ms. Marvel played the fragile heroine of Williams's "Streetcar" in a radically strange production prominently featuring the lavatory that becomes such a fatal object of contention between Blanche and Stanley.
Dec. 16 at 8). "PERSPECTIVES": YEFIM BRONFMAN Carnegie Hall offers carte blanche to the magnificent Israeli pianist, who continues his concert series with a solo recital featuring Schumann's Fantasy in C Major, Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit," and Balakirev's "Islamey".
In 1992 he was even invited to direct a new festival for the Opéra de Paris entitled 'Carte blanche for George Benjamin', and the same year he ran the controversial 'Wet Ink' festival of the San Francisco Symphony, featuring a wide range of living composers, in which he appeared as conductor, pianist and presenter.
