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...The show then transfers to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (nga.gov) where it runs from September 8 to January 19 2025....
...Charles White invoked Rivera’s history paintings for his “Progress of the American Negro”, from 1939-40, a panoramic tableau starring Sojourner Truth, Booker T....
...He was born in Gascony in south-west France and arrived in Washington, DC, to cook for the French ambassador in the 1970s. He fed seven consecutive ambassadors, their families and guests....
.... 2) Beiersdorf's exposures to Adhesives, Sun Care, Grooming and Travel Retail will likely drive LFLs down mid-single digits, but the stock has only underperformed Staples peers by 1% YTD. 3) L'Oréal's exposure...
...This was not because lenders predicted a crash in house prices, says David Hollingworth, a director at broker L & C Mortgages, but because offices had been inundated with requests from existing customers...
...It concerns two friends who are also half-sisters; one knows, the other doesn’t....
...This witness was a guest of honour at the celebrations. His name: J F C Fuller. After quitting the British army in frustration, he had thrown his lot in with the British fascists of Oswald Mosley....
...Gracious, no, my pictures don’t get across.” This was 1883, Impressionism’s year of crisis....
...For starters, I don’t care to delve deeply into the matter of whether we Americans do or don’t have a constitutional right to bear arms....
...In West Yorkshire Ed Miliband launched Labour’s health manifesto, which promises to abolish the health and social care act that introduced competition into the NHS in 2012....
...François Hollande, French president, will host a reception for guests at the Elysée Palace....
...Just the odd vibration passing through the G.L.A.C.’s innards, set off by huge things, things at the scale of the city....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...“I don’t know. I’ve already had breakfast. A banana!” I order two portions of fruit, tea, orange juice. “Oh, and some croissants,” adds my host/guest....
...“Le style, c’est l’homme,” say the French. In which case director Michael Winterbottom is less a man than a multitasking movie mutant, with styles as plural as his projects....
...Now that the place is deliciously dark, noisy and louche, no one really cares whether they can see their (comfort) food....
...Answers can be found behind the usually closed doors of Suite 600 at 2001 L Street, the Club for Growth’s Washington headquarters....
...“If they haven’t signed the GPA, we don’t have an obligation to them to maintain any particular fee. In other words, we can discriminate against them if we want to.”...
...There But For The, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16, 384 pages A dinner party guest locks himself in the host’s spare room and refuses to leave....
...I don’t care what anybody says.”...
...When the chief executives of America’s big three automakers flew last year in separate corporate jets from Detroit to Washington to ask the US government for a bail-out, there was widespread outrage....
...THE MARCH by E.L....
...Konstantin, Paris Robert Willsdon Mohammad C....
...The Mandarin Oriental, the newest luxury hotel in Washington, found guests for its 14-room presidential suite but failed to tempt anyone into a $220,500 Presidential Privilege package, which offered a private...
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