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...Up high and out of the way, a shelf runs around the L-shaped alcove, with green and white Rockingham plates for decoration. It is one of the best dining rooms ever....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
...“There where you are sitting was Alec Baldwin smoking with Keanu Reeves, who was [then] celebrating his 50th birthday.”...
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
.../ From Robert L Read, San Francisco, CA, US...
...Ronan L TynanEsperanza ProductionsDublin, Ireland...
...Alec Russell is editor of FT Weekend Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...There’s an expression in French: un coup d’épée dans l’eau [hitting water with a sword]. I hope this is not it.” She has to eat. I swap with her my favourite Tintin books....
...A technique, she said, without apparent irony, called Trump l’oeil. Alec Burnside Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium...
...French soul singer Ben l’Oncle Soul gave it a breezy funk-pop makeover in 2010 and his arrangement was borrowed by X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins in 2012....
...He intersperses these with short essays branching off from his strictly chronological account to offer portraits of individual writers such as Hugh Walpole, George Orwell and Alec Waugh....
...Sri Lanka lost their final wicket at 144 in the 27th over and England won by 81 runs according to the D/L method....
...A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder, the new musical by Robert L....
...The lane is famous as the scene of the first kiss between two of literature’s greatest detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, creations of my favourite crime author Dorothy L Sayers....
...Alec Baldwin wanders through as the youngster’s mentor, just like the Bogart ghost in Play It Again, Sam. (If only.)...
...Alec Russell is the FT’s comment and analysis editor...
...… For those of us unlucky enough to have been born with a thin skin, l’esprit de l’escalier is something akin to a psychological disorder....
...Otherwise, here is an enjoyable book guaranteed to appeal to those who have never got over the death of Dorothy L Sayers. (The schedulers of Sunday night TV might also take a look.)...
...Mocked as incompetent buffoons by comedians since Peter Cook, the upper-classes have not ruled Britain since Sir Alec Douglas-Home stopped being prime minister in 1964....
...Releasing the Congress manifesto ahead of India’s month-long elections starting on April 16, the prime minister made a scathing attack on his main challenger, the BJP’s L.K. Advani....
...Witness Alec Guinness’s Gulley Jimson in The Horse’s Mouth or Nick Nolte’s artist-egotist in Life Lessons, Martin Scorsese’s episode in New York Stories....
...Robert Fowlds at Merrill Lynch is leaving his old partner Alec Pelmore to join JPMorgan Cazenove as a corporate banker....
...Norse Dancer and Mubtaker seem past their best and owner Alec Wildenstein’s decision to supplement his Policy Maker for the race at a cost of £60,000 looks quixotic....
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