His hit productions of Yasmina Reza's clever but conventional dramas, including Art, Life x 3 and The Unexpected Man, may have made him rich and in demand, but they also make us forget that this softly spoken vicar's son is a theatrical iconoclast.
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He and his wife, a Spanish lawyer, are exemplars of a certain kind of multilingual, transnational elite.Yet his ability to play the iconoclast explains Mr Clegg's huge boost in the polls after the televised debate on April 15th between the leaders of the three main parties vying for votes at the coming general election.
His prolixity is a legend, yet he emerges as an original thinker and iconoclast, more familiar than his master with Afghanistan and Pakistan and more willing to challenge the military's most basic assumptions, such as the one that maintains that America's vital interests are still at stake in a country from which Osama bin Laden has long since fled.
The Real deal The quiet iconoclast ReprintsOn June 28th, a Court of Appeal in Hong Kong ruled in favour of Mr Wang senior, declaring the 1990 will a fake.
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He was an iconoclast, a playboy and a man with an impressive instinct for when to buy, when to sell and when to get nasty.
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And he can explain his rationale for buying Sprint with few notes and with (albeit self-flattering) jokes.But whereas the 55-year-old son of Korean-born parents remains an iconoclast in Japan, the pickle that he is in is familiar enough.
He examines the very convention of conventions, predicting ultimate defeat for any iconoclast who would defy them.
The idea is that Mr Blair can provide a more diplomatic public face for the company, and he also brings global clout.Mr Khosla, who clearly likes to see himself as a green iconoclast and financial maverick, is either very foolish or very clever.
