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...The science has certainly moved on from the 1830s, when the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet began collating statistics on the l’homme moyen, or the average man....
...“In my defence,” he notes in his memoir L’Envers du décor, “nobody in government was interested in the subject.”...
...Here were all the things Babur missed: shady gardens, clear streams, wild tulips and cool mountain landscapes with views down over the valleys below....
...Gauguin loved quoting this verse from Mallarmé poem “L’après-midi d’un faune”. (The show includes the sinuous, touching “Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé” with faun’s ears — another alter-ego.)...
...That water has been used to great effect at one of my favourite hotels in Morocco, L’Ma Lodge, in the centre of the palm grove....
...The first was the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, opened in 2008 — a stone building which evokes Islamic architecture with its dome, shady arcades and solid, geometric forms....
...With a typically British note of self-deprecation, this is designed to look like a battered old library book, but that only serves as a trompe-l’oeil effect for the wit and warmth inside....
...Not the €200bn in shady cash that’s estimated to have flowed through the bank’s Tallinn operation. Look instead at all the juicy profits that ended up in the Danish parent’s P&L....
...Besides, there is no love lost in the Republican base for shady sheikhs with $420m yachts. Then there is the media....
...L’Oréal, even though it tested its cosmetics products on animals, once bought the Body Shop, which was firmly against the practice....
...Designed by architect Edward L Varney in 1956, it too was populated with movie and particularly sports stars....
...L’Art et l’enfant, the Musée Marmottan’s superb and original exhibition, tells through scores of masterworks both familiar and rare how a century of refined French painters unpacked that call to regression...
...Works by other regular guests include ceramics by Georges Braque (by the pool) and Fernand Léger (“La jeune fille et l’oiseau”, on the terrace)....
...The strangeness of this transformation is embodied in René Magritte’s haunting “L’empire des lumières” (1953-54) in which a street light illuminates an unsettling night-time streetscape under the canopy...
...Scraped of its chauvinistic undertones, it hints at that peculiar delight of being alone in a vast, deserted, oven-hot metropolis, moving slowly from one shady terrace to the next, a cold cerveza, vermút...
...The last stretch hums with drugs, car chases and the shady world of black market art....
...Its 10-Q shows the P&L and balance sheet for both the Vernon Davis tracking stock, the platform stock, and the consolidation of both. Where is the $2m in expenses to date in 2014 going?...
...This makes a cool, shady walkway with seductive views of the water but the seemingly endless trudge up a shallow gradient begins to pall after a while....
...Some have said it was a pretty shady about-turn – this was the Reagan era, and Costa Rica had just blown cool on the administration’s conflict with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua....
...Barclays should be dancing like a teenage car thief on miaow-miaow, pumping and dumping client positions to boost its prop desk P&L. Some hope!...
...It is tiny, it has big ambitions in European fund management and it has a name beginning with an L but it is not Luxembourg. Welcome to Liechtenstein....
...The oeuvre itself, top-heavy with images of women and children – in living-rooms, blossom-bursting gardens and sunlit, shady parks – testifies to an artist devoted to the domestic, intimate and private....
...Outside the centre, however, some of the city’s bland façades have been brightened up by trompe l’oeil murals....
...Théâtre de l’Odéon...
...Open April-October, tent plus two adults €11 per night; www.champagne-perron-beauvineau.com La Vendette, Noirmoutier-en-l’Île Camping at La Vendette isn’t like sleeping on the beach – it is sleeping on...
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