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...The solutions came via a succession of manned lunar projects: Mercury (which put the first American, Alan Shepard, in space), then Gemini and finally Apollo....
...The exhibition takes its title and its starting point from street artist Shepard Fairey’s hugely successful and very familiar poster “Hope” created for Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign and its myriad...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Photographs: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Shepard Trust; Matt Flynn...
...(FT) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...It marks a swift change from just a decade ago, notes Diarmaid Ferriter, when Bertie Ahern’s initial sally at the top job was scuppered by his marital situation....
...Others have pulled off a similar trick; street artist and activist Shepard Fairey’s portrait “Hope” became the unofficial logo of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign....
...the nine days, the V&A is the festival’s official nerve centre....
...Exhibitors include Shepard Fairey, whose 2008 “hope” portrait of Barack Obama became one of the most iconic images of the campaign....
...Clive James is the author of ‘The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V’ (Picador)...
...Dermot Ahern, Ireland’s justice minister, on Thursday entered the row, saying: “They [Fifa] probably won’t grant it as we are minnows in world football but let’s put them on the spot....
...Artefacts range from a half-inch steel bolt worth $1,200 that was salvaged from Freedom 7, the craft that made Alan Shepard the first American in space in 1961, to the 29-page checklist used by Charles Duke...
...Yet when the approach works – the mud-caked verismo of Henry V, the Tuscan sun and skittishness of Much Ado About Nothing – the singleness of purpose intensifies the energy and vision....
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