Hints and tips:
...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...The scenario (if that isn’t too strong a word) plays fast and loose with the tragic tale of a simple girl sold to an abusive circus strongman....
...Also, Golden Boy, a soccer comic drama from Serbia about a young, highly talented player who is a massive egotistical prima donna and his struggles with his loose cannon temperament, talent scouts, big business...
...Degas’s friend Giuseppe di Nittis had small, loose representations of Vesuvius in the Impressionist show and more sedate landscapes at the Salon....
...“If we do nothing, the explosion of debt will paralyse government action, strangle it,” Pierre Moscovici, who heads France’s Court of Audit, told L’Express magazine....
...Villains (M L Rio, 2017) and The Cloisters (Katy Hays, 2022) that have a similar campus setting and intellectual moodiness....
...Some English words get distorted through Frenchification: “la lose” (often spelled “la loose”) means bad luck or failure....
...With its sketchy immediacy and loose, free brushstrokes, the painting launched modern art, gave Impressionism its name, and changed how we look at the world....
...“I wear an M for a smarter look under a more fitted shirt, sweater or jacket,” he says, “and an L for more casual looks with loose-fit chinos or shorts.”...
...“My Father’s Legs” is published by J&L Books Erik Kessels Muddy Dance2021 Years ago, British newspapers would run “spot the ball” competitions: photographs of matches where the football had been edited...
...But the increase in the headline rate of inflation last week, outpacing US inflation for the first time in eight years, has increased the chances of a surprise rate increase after a long period of ultra-loose...
...“We went to see what was called ‘the Sistine Chapel of Impressionism’,” says Riley of the Musée de l'Orangerie....
...As London was engulfed by the financial crisis of 2008, they were living in Shanghai, where von Halle, who started her career as a trend forecaster, had a local tailor whip her up a pair of luxuriant, loose-fitting...
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...As my DC colleague and Trade Secrets alumnus Aime Williams explains here, US and EU negotiators are writing an agreement on critical minerals, likely to be a loose statement of intent rather than anything...
...Olczak refuses to simply cut loose from countries such as Indonesia, where IQOS launched recently but an affordable version is not yet available....
...Letter in response to this article: The Fed’s accounting ploy has echoes of S&L crisis / From Alex J Pollock, Lake Forest, IL, US...
...the US in recent years — both in terms of listing numbers and in the valuations that companies there can command — was a product of the two factors: the technology scene in Silicon Valley, and the ultra-loose...
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...Tao was again dazzling, jaunty and loose....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
.... £29.50 langhamwine.co.uk Henriet-Bazin, Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Brut NV ChampagneNot the tightest texture, in fact rather loose, but you can enjoy the heart and soul in this wine....
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