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...Even automotive style icons Alfa Romeo confessed to considering the idea for a luxury van, while Volkswagen upped the ante in 2022 with its well-appointed ID Buzz, as did Korean carmaker Hyundai with its...
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...“Anvisa’s delays in approving Sputnik V are, unfortunately, of a political nature,” the Russian Direct Investment Fund wrote on Twitter....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...It’s just released a film of Romeo & Juliet, shot in the backstage spaces, and plans to do more....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...Mavica hints that two early collaborators will be conductor Teodor Currentzis, known for his high-voltage performances, and the maverick theatre-maker Romeo Castellucci....
...said there were “fine people” among the white supremacists at a deadly protest in Charlottesville in 2017 was also slower than campaigners hoped, he noted, but once Ken Frazier of pharmaceutical group Merck...
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...change Siemens initiated sweeping change following the slush fund scandal, which was most clearly visible in the appointment of Gerhard Cromme, from ThyssenKrupp, as chairman, and Peter Löscher, from Merck...
...pages of James Shapiro’s keyhole biography of Shakespeare, 1599, and realised that he wasn’t just any actor, but the star of the show: that very year he had, it seemed, been the first man to play Henry V...
...Evercore v Lazard: the boutique turf war Boutique investment bank results are streaming in, and with two of the biggest advisory shops posting their annual figures, we thought it might be a good time to...
...In the UK, the Sackler name appears on an array of cultural landmarks, including a gallery at the Serpentine, a courtyard at the V&A, an education centre at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, an escalator at Tate...
...V, Sc 3 “Our revels now are ended” – The Tempest, Act IV, Sc 1 “Brave new world” – The Tempest, Act V, Sc 1 “What’s in a name” - Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Sc 2 “Made of sterner stuff” – Julius Caesar...
...Precision rather than brute force gave Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet Overture its intensity and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet its swagger....
...It harks back, too, to Shakespeare’s famous opening to Henry V, in which he calls on the audience to work their imaginations. “Great acting is always about what you don’t do,” he says....
...Romeo and Juliet may get away with some couple from Made in Chelsea but you might need Keira Knightley for Cymbeline....
...And the show will also mark the return to the US of Alfa Romeo, now a premium brand of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Chrysler’s Italian-based parent....
...Sales by the neglected Alfa Romeo brand would quadruple to 400,000. However, Mr Marchionne appeared typically unflappable....
...Andrew Jack is the FT’s head of aggregation and editor of FirstFT Photographs: V.A....
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Jack was one of nine finalists in Off By Heart Shakespeare, a televised nationwide competition that had thousands of schoolchildren spouting off as Romeo, Macbeth or Portia....
...The chosen text for the first course is Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s most popular classroom plays....
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