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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent 1872-1898. British illustrator whose black and white, often erotic drawings were both highly individual and typical of the art nouveau style.
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“The building is opposite Quadrant 1, the former Café Royal, frequented by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, which is being turned into a five-star hotel and set to complete early next year.”
The Guardian: Conversion of Regent Palace Hotel into £300m retail development completed
“But the prosecution is going to call Beardsley and bring up the fact that the Simpson fan and memorabilia collector told police right after the incident — we just got robbed by O.J.”
“Riccio has called Beardsley criminally insane and has said he burned him in a prior business dealing.”
“GUTIERREZ: Now on cross-examination, Simpson's attorney called Beardsley's credibility into question.”
“In harmony with his new _rôle_, he showed himself a miracle of forbearance under Beardsley's reproaches and sententious beyond endurance, actually called Beardsley young, his cardinal offence, for the young hate nothing so much as to be reminded of the youth for which the old envy them.”
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
“Beardsley, " Mr. Wemyss said, in a tone suggesting visions of utter despair.”
“Longtime observers such as Beardsley and Stephen A. A.fred, town manager in South Kingstown since 1976, said they could not recall such dramatic back-to-back cuts.”
“But that won't stop some reds hailing him after 25 minutes as the new Dalglish/Beardsley/Keegan.”
The Guardian: Kenny Dalglish's sure touch unveils foraging foursome to fear
“It will therefore come as no surprise to learn that I blame the recent eruption of what the rugby authorities used to term "good-natured horseplay" in our major cities on one thing – the breakdown of the sort of traditional sporting partnership – Trueman and Statham, Beardsley and Lineker, Bruce and Pallister – that once brought stability to the life of youngsters everywhere.”
The Guardian: What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
“Gus Van Sant: When I was in junior high in Darien, Conn., the art that really influenced me came out of the record shops with their oversized posters by counter-culture artists like Aubrey Beardsley and all those classic album covers that seemed like art themselves.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Director's Own Private Watercolors
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