The stage designer Robert Carsen has created witty, imaginative and compelling installations, making a fashion show out of a cluster of Manet paintings by lining the rooms with red carpet and gilded chairs, each with a handwritten name of society figures of the era.
It offended a number of society figures, many tracing direct lineage to the major magnate families whose members are portrayed in the painting as traitors to the Polish cause.
The three leaders did not elaborate on who would fill the remaining government posts but said that they would also go to prominent figures of civil society.
It's a rare human being who has the courage of his convictions, and is strong enough to stand up against the never-ending threats and attacks of the most powerful figures of our society".
The normally tranquil Netherlands was already on edge after a year that involved a political assassination and the arrests of several men with suspected ties to Al Qaeda, along with a series of death threats against leading figures of Dutch society.
Subversive writer that she is, Ruth Rendell slyly sends up two iconic figures of English society — the animal lover and the guardian of political correctness — in her new Inspector Wexford mystery, THE MONSTER IN THE BOX (Scribner, $26).
Pliny's letters introduce many of the leading figures of Roman society in the 12 years after the death of Domitian men of letters, politicians, administrators, generals, and rising young men of rank.
It wasn't clear which stood taller: the Corinthian columns of the New York State Supreme Court or the towering figures of New York society who mingled beneath them at the kickoff to the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday night.
The first is that our understanding of Henry Darger, who has become not only the face and star of outsider art, but also a shamanistic ghost-figure of human society, has only begun.
Benefiting immensely from the fine literary traditions of his environment, and building upon the legacy of his predecessors, Fizuli was destined to become the leading literary figure of his society.
