Hints and tips:
...This is not the season for subdued, plain-hued jersey polos. Instead, look to stripes, prints, rich block colours and outrageously indulgent materials....
...Broderick has less fortune, playing a stuffed shirt, a stuffed ego and plain stuffy, and delivering them all stiffly — though act three does allow both actors to let loose with some broad physical comedy...
...He says demand for ties, particularly plain ones, is on the increase....
...Much is hidden in plain sight. Take that issue of age. Rather than being swept under a tigerskin rug, characters raise it repeatedly....
...The best things I have found so far have been half a Roman hairpin, a decorated Victorian clay marble, a plain 17th century bone knife handle and the top of a Georgian sugar shaker....
...But the clash did reveal a fundamental difference in the pair’s approach to politics....
...The pair started collaborating on a project that led to a groundbreaking 2005 paper showing how to manipulate mRNA to avoid the unwanted immune reaction in the human body....
...“Eggs” and “Sausages”; “Batman” and “Wonder Woman”; “Sheilas” and “Blokes” (vital Aussie representation); a cartoon bra and pair of boxer-briefs....
...It’s not a totally satisfactory method (how does it account for plain old luck, for example?) but it’s often the best one can do....
...The metallic jewellery, much of it cube-shaped, is rather plain....
...Loose or slim fitting, spread or unstructured collar, striped or plain – the choice is yours....
...and bears for Wall Streeters, shiny little dice for the gambler in your life or, heaven help us, little golf clubs and balls — all dreary manifestations of the masculine aversion to things that are just plain...
...East End bagels tend to be plain. New York bagels come with classic toppings such as poppy seed, sesame, onion, garlic and “everything” (ie all of the above)....
...A long avenue of poplars led over a bridge to a cobbled courtyard where a pair of peacocks shrieked and fanned their tails....
...Karikó, the daughter of a butcher, grew up on the plains of central Hungary. She was not born into wealth — her family lived in one room heated by a sawdust stove....
...She was born in White Plains, New York, to an engineer father and a school administrator mother, and studied education at Boston University....
...This is definitely not the sort of dish served in fancy foraged food restaurants, but literally a shallow bowl of plain minced meat, served with potatoes....
...Her set-up was simple: a plain wall, some of his paintings, the shadow cast by a birdcage he kept in his studio. One sitting led to another, this time at The Factory with his friend Andy Warhol....
...If a portrait was too complimentary, disappointment might result when the pair finally came face to face....
...jemima.kelly@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Reason for Trump’s appeal is his outspoken bigotry / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...This kind of coat-dress was a ubiquitous Regency women’s garment, and she and Cassandra had commissioned a matching pair at 17 shillings each....
...“I probably have 13 pairs of Birkenstock Arizonas lined up at my front door in every single material and colour imaginable,” he says. “It’s easy, comfortable....
...His portraits quiver and spark, but they also have an ascetic quality, their depth minimised, colours muted and solid human shapes placed against a plain ground....
...The exteriors of such remote hermitages were utterly plain, easily mistaken for a barn: this is like lifting the lid on a jewel box, and sets the scene for the wonders of western religious art to come....
...Once, a pair of escaped peacocks appeared. They were a brief media sensation....
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