Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde.

The changing of the costume on the figure is a colourful ceremony, often accompanied by brass band music.

The way Dalida shifted from a classical performer to a grave performer singing songs full of emotion ( such as " Avec le temps ", " Parlez-moi de lui " and " Darla dirladada ", amongst others ), to a Diva and pop star like figure making the stage glow with her hit dance numbers and colourful costumes and finally to a grief-stricken singer singing famous songs which announce her death ( particularly songs such as " Mourir sur Scene ", " Bravo " and " Téléphonez-moi "), Dalida showed that she was a strong-willed woman shifting with time and fashion.

The series largely concerns the colourful and surrealistic adventures of Tim and Daisy as they navigate through life, decide on what they want to do with their lives, come to terms with affairs of the heart, and try to figure out new and largely unproductive ways of killing time.

Ramsbottom retired in 1871 and was succeeded by the legendary Frank Webb, a colourful and controversial figure who was known as ' The Uncrowned King of Crewe '.

Coles was always a colourful political figure.

There he added the final " e " to his name, probably to distinguish himself as clearly as possible from the colourful figure of Amor De Cosmos.

At the time the only eligible Conservative Scottish QC was Nicholas Fairbairn, a colourful and sometimes controversial figure.

Nicknamed ' Boony ', the stocky, moustached batsman became something of a cult figure for his colourful character.

London high society welcomed the colourful figure of MacGregor, and he and his Spanish American wife Josefa Andrea Aristeguieta y Lovera received many invitations.

Others still consider Monticelli a minor figure in 19th century painting, a painter's painter, and some express their disregard in a colourful manner.

Statue of Rob Roy Situated high up on the steep, rocky bank of the Culter Burn near the western exit of the village is a colourful and well-tended kilted wooden figure holding a broadsword and targe ( shield ) that represents Rob Roy Macgregor, who according to local legend leapt across the stream at that point to escape pursuing Hanoverian troops.

His wife, Barangaroo, was an important Cammeraygal woman from Sydney's early history who was a powerful and colourful figure in the colonisation of Australia.

Jack is a colourful figure, almost 3m ( nine feet ) tall, covered in greenery and flowers.

An eccentric and colourful figure, she was also an artist and writer, and her antics often created controversy.

He caught Nigel Melville's eye and was signed by Wasps in 1997, where he quickly became something of a cult figure for his uncompromising approach on the field of play, his colourful hair styles and his friendly nature off the pitch.

As the 1920s wore on, however, Pasternak increasingly felt that his colourful style was at odds with an increasingly less educated readership.

His signature style emerged as one that was colourful, playful, loaded with geometry, art-history and music-history references, jokes, cryptograms and symbols.

The Imperial German Cavalry, while as colourful and traditional as any in peacetime appearance, had adopted a practice of falling back on infantry support when any substantial opposition was encountered.

The use of recorded evidence was combined with an increased scepticism about two of the most colourful chroniclers of John's reign, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris.

In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests ( See Chagai-I and Chagai-II ), Mehmood was honored and awarded the civilian decoration, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, in a colourful ceremony by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif.

When no games were being held, the Circus at the time of Catullus ( mid-1st century BC ) was likely " a dusty open space with shops and booths ... a colourful crowded disreputable area " frequented by " prostitutes, jugglers, fortune tellers and low-class performing artists.

This was different from conventional travel literature of the time, insofar as it present more than a mere collection of data-it also demonstrated coherent, colourful and reliable ethnographical facts that resulted from detailed and sympathetic observation.

The old town, having grown within fortifications, where every metre of ground was precious, is a labyrinth of narrow streets paved with cobblestones, sometimes tortuous but colourful and clean.

In June 2005, it was revealed that archaeologists from the University of Hamburg had been working along the coast of Libya when they uncovered a 30 ft length of five colourful mosaics created during the 1st or 2nd century.

Holst's use of orchestration was very imaginative and colourful, showing the influence of Arnold Schoenberg and other continental composers of the day rather than his English predecessors.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (; 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901 ) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.

However, such colourful characters were not welcomed by his neighbours and he was obliged to leave London in 1964.

It replaced the " Pathfinder " series, which was less colourful and covered a smaller area on each map.

In Sweden, however, the new union badge in particular became quite unpopular and was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillsallaten ( Swedish ) or Sildesalaten ( Norwegian ) after a colourful dish of pickled herring, decorated with red beets and apples in a radial pattern.

Among the most colourful of his " ignorant " patrons was the head of the Scopadae clan, named Scopas.

One of Symbolism's most colourful promoters in Paris was art and literary critic ( and occultist ) Joséphin Péladan, who established the Salon de la Rose + Croix.

This squadron performed many important bombing and photographic missions during the war, but is perhaps best known as the " Zodiac Squadron ", as its bombers were decorated with colourful images of the twelve signs of the zodiac painted by a professional artist named Phil Brinkman, who was taken into the squadron by its commander, Capt.

His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional.

Pete Burns, lead singer of the New Wave band Dead or Alive would later claim he was the first to wear braids, big hats, and colourful costumes, but George would cut back with a sharp-tongued remark, " It's not who did it first, it's who did it better ".

It was then that Paul Smith knew he wanted to be part of this colourful world of ideas and excitement.

Here he bungled his way through a feature on the 1994 FIFA World Cup, gave a colourful report on the previous sporting season, made a complete mess of reporting the recent horse racing meeting, and was beaten up by a female martial-arts instructor.

The toga, the characteristic garment of the male Roman citizen, was set aside in favor of the Greek synthesis, colourful " dinner clothes " otherwise considered in poor taste for daytime wear.

During the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the Georgian rugby team arrived in Perth with a crowd of Perth residents welcoming them with colourful support, and a similar occurrence was noted in Townsville, Queensland where the Japanese rugby team was preferred to that of the French.

Prominent members included King O ' Malley, a colourful Labor member, Sir George Bell, Speaker of the House, and Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

The correspondence of bishop Dionysius of Alexandria provides a colourful commentary on the sombre background of invasion, civil war, plague and famine that characterized this age.

Originally the conch is portrayed as being very vibrant and colourful, but as the novel progresses, its colours begin to fade, the same way society begins to fade on the island.

Cultural extensions of the traditional circus style include: Chinese circus — using mainly rings and badminton racquets, fantastic costumes, concentrating on numbers juggling ; Russian folk — colourful costumes and characters, unique props with acrobatics.

Some colourful accounts claim that he choked on a piece of bread while denying any disloyalty to the king.

** The placement of the reliquary on the Car d ’ Or ( Golden Chariot ), before it is carried in the city streets in a colourful procession that counts more than a thousand costumed participants.

At the beginning of September, on Labour Day weekend, Gatineau hosts an annual hot air balloon festival which fills the skies with colourful gas-fired passenger balloons.

The identification of a diffraction grating pattern on well-preserved Marrella specimens proves that it would have harboured an iridescent sheen — and thus would have appeared colourful.

Women, especially younger girls, will often apply the traditional Mehndi, or henna, on their hands and feet and wear colourful bangles.

Pop Larkin and his family were inspired by a colourful character seen in a local shop in Kent by Bates and his family when on holiday.

Made of colourful dried flowers and herbs, they are taken to churches on Palm Sunday.

This was adapted by CB ' ers and colourful cards featuring ' handles ', pictures and so on appeared.

On the same occasion in Rhenish Hesse and the Palatinate, people have parades carrying big pretzels mounted on colourful decorated poles.

A few species have slightly more colourful breeding plumages, for example the Rosy Pipit has greenish edges on the wing feathers.

These are worn with colourful striped aprons ; metil aprons are worn on the front, and gewe on the back, and are held together by an embossed silver buckle called kyetig.

It comes wrapped in colourful aluminium foil, and consists of a round biscuit base on the bottom and whipped egg whites cream from above, coated in a thin layer of chocolate.

This old port was the heart of the ancient Greek city of Antipolis and has a long and colourful history which includes Ligurians, Romans and Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land.