Hints and tips:
...Now, the retailer understood that “you’d probably quite like to look like you did when you were 35 or 40”. Gone from most stores are acres of drab clothes with confusing layouts....
...Over the 20 years he worked in Soho, Norman said, he’d seen the area change beyond recognition, but that one working men’s caff remained....
...It’s got the salty monk’s beard [a samphire-like vegetable], then the smoky tang of tomatoes, but I’d like some bread.”...
...Napoleon, inspecting the factory in 1806 ,was so impressed that he awarded him the Légion d’honneur....
...Ascending the long escalators of the Pompidou Centre to visit a show about Norman Foster feels a little strange....
...It was founded in New York City on 26 October 1955 by a trio of left-wing veterans rooted in the counterculture, including Norman Mailer....
...However, during last year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève — the Oscars of the watch world — a new type of home-build kit beat the established ready-made creators, such as L’Epée 1839, Matthew Norman...
...So that’s the direction of travel we’d like to go in, but it’s too early to know the extent to which we’ll be able to do it.”...
...“You don’t have to think much and you chance upon products you’d like,” she said....
...“You’ve got the two biggest beasts in the middle market, you’d be forgiven for thinking they can’t both do well [in food] at the same time, or can they?” said Hyman....
...I’d pair it with a brief description of the life of its inventor, Bill Phillips, who had more adventures than Indiana Jones....
...I felt I’d been set a challenge.”...
...Surely it beats giving the job to bishops, the descendants of Norman barons and the hangers-on of the past few prime ministers....
...I’d advise coming here for something more substantial than a flat white....
...She’d first read the 17th-century novelist as a teenager, in Samuel Putnam’s (then new) translation....
...So the eight-year-old Eric decided he’d do the deed for which he’d been punished and set fire to the school. “I got rather frightened and I thought I’d better tell the headmaster,” Hebborn said....
...Corbin and King had created possibly the most lovely restaurant interior in London at the time, but once the maître d’ had explained to me the purpose of the “inner circle”, how they’d created a special...
...For a few years, La Tour d’Eole, a small, super-elegant ecolodge at the water’s edge, has been the address of choice....
...Or that pickling could transform a lärchen, the tiny, furry, you’d-have-thought-inedible pinecone of a larch tree (he is also a keen forager) into something arrestingly nutty and aromatic....
...In its 45 pages it tells one story in a very readable way — the story of how Trump “[d]espite having lost, . . . was determined to remain in power....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...There are two striking contemporary museums, one dedicated to “Romanité” and another, designed by Norman Foster, to contemporary art. So, why the old gym?...
...They are the R & D department (of the music industry), where you figure out who you are as a songwriter,” he said, lamenting the dire straits many of these spots are now in....
...The former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker is one outlier, having raised questions on the topic in parliament during his time in office between 1997 and 2015....
...“We wanted [Boia De] to be a place where we’d go out for dinner: a casual environment with some high-end ingredients and really nicely done food,” she says....
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