Hints and tips:
...The Lighthouse of Alexandria, perhaps; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Tower of Babel — where man endeavours to move closer to heaven....
...As co-president and artistic director of Chopard, Caroline Scheufele has seen and handled a king’s ransom’s worth of fabulously rare and ravishing gemstones....
...“We’ve gone the wrong way — we’re building towers in the desert! — and now we need to find the way out. The maze, for us, was the best metaphoric form.”...
...lodged itself in the public imagination as indelibly as the coal tip that flattened a primary school at Aberfan in 1966 or the lethal 1989 stadium crush at Hillsborough or 2017’s conflagration at Grenfell Tower...
...Icahn recounted the moment, which involved one of Wall Street’s messiest corporate takeover battles, in a stand-up routine at the famed Manhattan comedy club, Carolines on Broadway. “I’m telling you....
...Few apart from the former US president himself would place him in the pantheon of great entrepreneurs, but he defied reality by insisting that his Trump Tower apartment was three times its actual size....
...More gift store than grocery, Lugo’s shelves will be packed with butter dishes shaped like subway trains, coffee pourers in the form of water towers and pit-bull umbrella stands....
...A tower of black handwoven fabric, it is part headwear, part artwork, embellished with the same red beads that form a stiff collar which sits over her dress....
...A tower of shelves made from wooden struts, the black and red strips of fabric tied around its joins suggest it is a shrine. Yousefzada says it’s about “migration, female agency and consumption”....
...In those areas where it does exist in the north of the borough, it can come with appalling risks, as the inhabitants of Grenfell Tower discovered to their cost....
...Bloomberg monitors do not tower over the analysts, nor are there TVs streaming financial news....
...Bookie Alfie McLean, bulky, blotchy, unyielding, sits flanked by his lean, wary son in “Two Irishmen in W11”, before a vista of the capital’s terraces and tower blocks....
...What do Manchester, Dartford in Kent and Tower Hamlets in east London have in common?...
.../ From Caroline Dawnay, London W14, UK Let’s pray Carney’s quip has no economic analogue / From Nick Bradbury, Reading, Berkshire, UK...
...The Gehry tower had to be relocated to the north of the site from an originally proposed position which was thought to be too near the ancient Alyscamps burial ground, a Roman necropolis....
...Nearly 40 per cent of US workers earning over $100,000, surveyed by consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, are living pay cheque to pay cheque. This is twice as many as the number in 2019....
...“I was terribly restless and Caroline was terribly nervous,” he said: a portrait of the times, as well as of a disintegrating marriage....
...After attending a study day at Great Dixter in 2013, illustrator Caroline Kent started to renovate the grassland around her Sussex cottage with help from Peter Baldock, the former head gardener at Pashley...
...It turned out that the gallerists selling sought-after contemporary art over the road at Art Basel couldn’t get enough of his towers of brightly coloured oval boxes or ladder-back chairs....
...caroline.binham@ft.com...
...As I put in earplugs on the seventh night to block out the surrounding karaoke bars (“Sweeeet Caroline . . ....
...It trades $5bn worth of coins daily, across thousands of products, the company’s co-chief executive Caroline Ellison told an industry publication....
...They are planning a performance “like a tower of Babel”....
...Lately I’ve been bewitched by her novel The Towers of Trebizond, in which a group of Anglicans travel across Turkey by camel. Rose appears on a white one....
...The sell-off “isn’t at all surprising given the backdrop of weakening market internals and stretched price action”, said Matt Orton, director and portfolio specialist for Carillon Tower Advisers....
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