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...Our own furniture would barely fill a single supersized room and so we’d be grateful for everything. We’d even eat the groceries in the cupboards....
...ranging from the Nuremberg Chronicles to the personal library of George Washington and Paul Revere’s engraving The Bloody Massacre....
...There’s a grand walnut-wood staircase, its ornately designed railing camouflaging an intertwined B and E (Basile was known for his clever covert signatures), and – serendipitously, notes Polizzi – several...
...comes alive once more. hilton.com Alec Russell La Colombe d’Or, Saint-Paul de Vence, France The cool crepuscular gloom is a respite from sun-baked, crowded streets....
...Paul Hollingsworth: A transformation of the UK economy to a high wage and high productivity one by the end of 2022 looks unlikely....
...Palacio Solecio, a £30m restoration project overseen by tastemaking hotelier Pablo Carrington, ticks this box decisively....
...If I were removing it and it weren’t mine, I’d be a little bit more gingerly about it,” the official said....
...So can a city or a culture thrive in the shadow of infrastructure built on a repressive ideology? “My attitude is do not demolish,” Ms Wolff says. “These things are there and it’d be wasteful....
...In the US, crude oil production has declined by more than 900,000 b/d since April 2015 to about 8.7m b/d last month, while petrol consumption was poised to break records this year....
...The names of Bang & Olufsen, Issey Miyake, Fendi and Caran D’Ache flash by in a strange blur of product placement....
...The artwork is titled “Gravity and Growth” but has been dubbed “the magical money tree” by wags. 29 A Roman landmark reopened this year after a 17-month restoration....
...In late August, they met for a handover of the restoration’s main phase with its chairman and British fundraiser, Martin Drury, former director of our National Trust....
...The remains of a grade B-listed, 18th-century Georgian home, uninhabited for more than a 100 years, have been turned into a striking five-bedroom dwelling....
...Haussmann linked ennobling cultural landmarks with straight broad streets, a scheme that resulted in a gentrified core surrounded by a ring of railway stations, parks, and ghettos of the displaced....
...of those landmarks of American cinema, packed with arresting images and vivid recollections from cast and crew....
...[Rapper] Plan B recently did something involving a hashtag where fans could reply to a tweet and stream his album in full.”...
...A, you’ve got to generate the inflation and, B, keep it going for long enough. And then stop it quickly, without causing costs there. That seems unattractive....
...The bedside tables are upholstered in goatskin …But all this pales beside the views from the vast semi-circular sitting room, which encompass all London’s principal landmarks, from St Paul’s to the London...
..., by Paul Krugman, WW Norton, RRP£14.99 Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, is the most influential economics columnist in the US....
...loom room …” Its 23 residential buildings now offer a range of apartments and villas that sleep between two and 10, which together with the castle-turned-B&B at the top of the village accommodate up to...
...to 200,000 b/d by the end of the year....
...The B&B where we stayed, Trerosewill Farm, with views out to sea and a Cornish flag (a white cross on black background) fluttering, is a 15-minute hike up a very steep road from the harbour....
...What gave me such a right? Nothing except that I was short of time and I’d wanted my two-day visit to be memorable....
...Trad jazz became skiffle, and skiffle became blues or R&B. I augmented my living by playing guitar for a while in a whores’ hotel. There were no clothes in the shops....
...JFK’s legislative agenda was stalled by 1963, and only implemented by Lyndon B. Johnson after the assassination....
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