His love of curving forms and irregular patterns — and his skill in bringing them to life — had a perceptible effect on two major Le Corbusier structures: the monastery at Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, with its undulating glass façade, and the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, with its paraboloidal shape.
Three decades later Lieutenant Major Le Van Nui's soldiers are finally putting to use the territory they won.
May 10 2014 The veteran pianist, who uses his virtuoso technique to craft interpretations of analytical intensity and dramatic sweep, offers a typically wide-ranging slate of works at the 92nd Street Y: music by Sweelinck, Nielsen, Charles Wuorinen (three works, all commissioned by the Y), and Beethoven (the Sonata in E-Flat Major, "Les Adieux").
The cliquish flattery exchanged by salon luminaries permeates France's preface, which found its way onto the front pages of a couple of major periodicals, Le Figaro and Le Gaulois.
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There are also the earnest, well-conceived but ineloquent paintings of a major architect, Le Corbusier.
His most recent major work, "Le Temps l'Horloge" ("Time and The Clock"), was introduced by the soprano Renée Fleming, the conductor Seiji Ozawa, and the Orchestre National de France in 2009; it is a major attraction of Fleming's new Decca disc, "Poèmes".
The influence of Hegel is apparent in Žižek's first major work, Le Plus Sublime des Hystériques: Hegel Passe (1988; "The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel Passes"), a revision of his second dissertation.
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