Hints and tips:
...Born in 1984, the same year that Sade released her debut album, Jessie Ware initially spent her career under a Sadean star sign....
...It’s a greatest hits tour de force too, from Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft – both on loan from the Mauritshuis in The Hague – to The Lacemaker and The Milkmaid....
...Jessie Buckley, meanwhile, gives a career-defining performance as Sally Bowles: raw, desolate, defiant....
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com...
...My personal style signifier is a set of pearls. I have a fairly maximalist approach to my style, with some edge – but always with pearls....
...Brown was one of the first overseas galleries to open in the colonial era Pedder building in 2009; other dealers to move in since include Gagosian, Lehmann Maupin and Pearl Lam....
...CMC Pictures, a subsidiary of CMC Partners and sister company of Pearl Studio, has distributed Chinese films in the US, UK and Europe over the past three years....
...His fintech adventures have also seen him back a company his son helped found, crowd-funded property outfit British Pearl....
...But perhaps the film that soared highest was Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, the feel-good story of a Glasgow ex-con, played by the sensationally good Jessie Buckley, who dreams of becoming a Nashville country singer...
...Here’s the FT’s Patrick Jenkins’ take on that facet. We’ve resisted the pig puns throughout because DD would hate to be accused of casting pearls before swine . . ....
...News this morning of “Strong momentum in Asia with customer advances in the Pearl River Delta up 17 per cent on 1Q16, new insurance sales up 13 per cent and growth in assets under management of 15 per cent...
...(Politico) Abe’s Pearl Harbor boost Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is expecting a boost in approval ratings after his historic trip to Pearl Harbor with Barack Obama later this month....
...I’ve finished Boris Johnson’s and — as recommended to me by Sir Nicholas Soames — have just started the one by Roy Jenkins....
...There is no point spraying money at people because, to quote Jessie J, it’s not about the money....
...One likely challenge will be to deliver a US LNG project to rival the Pearl development in Qatar brought on stream by Mr Voser....
...The grandson of a pearl trader, HBJ is a contrarian and a consummate dealmaker....
...But Campbell is a superb biographer and he makes Jenkins a fascinating and emblematic figure....
...His second, Liberty Acquisitions, invested £520m in Pearl Insurance in 2009 and €900m in Prisa last year....
...Michael Fallon, David Rutley, Andrea Leadsom, Jessie Norman. John Thurso. WORK AND PENSIONS (Anne Begg) – Karen Buck, Margaret Curran, Kate Green, Shabana Mahmood....
...“For instance there is a diamond- and-pearl octopus necklace which some clients can’t even bear to try on.”...
...The events that changed the direction of the war – the failed German attack on Russia and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor – were neither predictable nor predicted....
...Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket journalist. Sam Judah, managing director, GBA Group of Companies. Anthony Kappes, Paralympic cyclist. Jason Kenny, Olympic cyclist....
...If things do not improve, whispers have it, two cabinet elders – Jack Straw and Geoff Hoon – will present Mr Brown with a pearl-handled revolver....
...Mistreatment of foreign wives is common, says Kathy Ke, executive director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation in Taipei, an organisation that offers counselling and help to foreign spouses....
...Five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US had defeated and occupied its adversaries in both Asia and Europe....
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