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...That was its fate as Dionne Warwick came to the Royal Albert Hall, a fate shared with so many other Bacharach and David songs that one rather wondered what the pair had done to irritate Warwick....
...Graydon Carter is stepping down as Vanity Fair editor after 25 years in charge; Nancy Gibbs, his counterpart at Time magazine, is also departing after a three-decade career....
...Proms first night The BBC’s 120th Henry Wood Proms season of 92 concerts opens at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Edward Elgar’s oratorio “The Kingdom” (to September 13)....
...The show also features work by Ossie Clark, Bill Gibb and Thea Porter, along with London boutiques such as Granny Takes a Trip, Biba and Alkasura....
...– FT Alphaville Albert Edwards, uber bull? (not quite yet) – FT Alphaville...
...The easy, languid look and floating silhouette symbolises the carefree spirit of the 1970s – a decade in the spotlight thanks to a host of shows, from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s David Bowie is in...
...Neil Gibbs, who has run the Spyglass Inn in Ventnor for 20 years, says: “The way of life more than compensates for the lack of amenities....
...As Albert Einstein said: “Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.” When it is a question of survival, there is no room for the non-essential....
...Vladimir Putin, who was photographed on vacation this week fishing barechested in Siberia, has displayed a similar yen for celebrity – Prince Albert of Monaco was his guest....
...Sir Roy Strong, former director of the National Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, author of books on British art and a long-time friend of Gibbs had the opportunity to study the painting carefully...
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