The new building's immediate neighbors are mansarded Second Empire survivals, a domed Ukrainian Orthodox church, and brash contemporary commercial interlopers a motley architectural crew.
The last gallery, called "Spaces of Modern Life, " is a culmination of all that came before it, a sort of Second Empire fugue state of themes expressed and interwoven.
It just so happens that Worth's Second Empire silhouette a tightly corseted hourglass with a huge hemisphere of skirt is what women were wearing when a new breed of painters emerged, artists pursuing the truth of the fleeting moment even if it meant crossing moral boundaries or breaking with the norms of pictorial representation.
By 2003, as Railroad Minister, he commanded a bureaucratic empire second in scale and independence only to the military, with its own police force, courts, and judges and with billions of dollars at his disposal.
Gray was writing in the late 70s and early 1980s when the former second city of the empire was reaching its economic and social nadir.
HBO's hit series Boardwalk Empire, entering its second season this September, has reincarnated a nostalgic vision of Atlantic City, replete with gangsters, molls, speakeasies and poker joints.
He admits these "mad things" have been "irresponsible, foolish" given his importance to the Virgin empire, and to his second wife, Joan, and their two children.
The second consequence has been the fraying of an empire, and the sight of its emperor under siege.
They took over the successful perfume business begun by their extraordinarily perspicacious mother Estee Lauder and built it into a global empire that made Revlon look like a scruffy second rate operation.
Kasdan has a long association with Lucasfilm, having worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy.
Kasdan worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy while Kinberg is best known for his work on X-Men: The Last Stand and Guy Ritchie's hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
Is the Russian Federation basically a Russian empire, with a few non-Russians living in it as second-class citizens?
Second, it is now clear from archival material emerging from the old Soviet empire that the quote was wrong even if it had applied only to the immediate post-war era.
Second, it must acquire new Boardwalks and Park Places to flesh out its ether empire--without bombing its share price.
And when the British were about to leave here after the Second World War, they gave the impression to these people who had been loyal to the British Empire that they could have independence for their separate areas.
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