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...“She really changed not just how women dressed, but how women shopped,” says Dennis Nothdruft, head of exhibitions at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum....
...Smyth’s Mass was being given in the Royal Albert Hall, where it premiered in 1893, though this was its Proms debut....
...The Victoria and Albert Museum this year bought 13 pieces from Collect, compared with five in the previous year....
...Victoria & Albert Museum, vam.ac.uk. What to readLess is a Bore. Reflections on Memphis by Julia Honer and Monika Schnetkamp (Spector Books)....
...His voice is Swiss-German crossed with Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. “Then I wanted more.” How was school? “Strange,” he says....
...Earlier, President Donald Trump weighed in against the automation of modern planes, saying on Twitter that “I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot”....
...“In the pilot world, information is key to survival,” Dennis Tajer, a 737 captain, told the Financial Times in November....
...Beginning in 1912, the chemist and businessman Albert Barnes amassed the largest private collection of Renoirs in the world, with 181 paintings, buying many from Jean himself....
...Property Citic, a Chinese state-owned investment fund, will take a 40 per cent stake in a £1.7bn project to convert the Royal Albert Docks, near Canary Wharf in London, into homes and offices....
...Cardiff Garcia In preparation for a different podcast, I’ve just read Albert O Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests. Tyler Cowen Wonderful book....
...He takes comfort in comments by Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart suggesting the Fed needed a reason not to go with a September hike....
...vam.ac.uk Photographs: Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
...“A hereditary head of state is an affront to democracy and a complete anachronism in a modern 21st century democracy,” said Dennis Canavan, a former Labour MP....
...In 1967 he joined forces with compatriot Richard Neville to found the London edition of Oz magazine along with Felix Dennis; it became a scourge of the British establishment....
...World Gone By, by Dennis Lehane, Little, Brown, RRP£16.99/William Morrow, RRP$27.99 Mystic River confirmed Lehane as one of the most skilful of American writers, but it proved a tough act to follow....
...Albert Otto Hirschman was born in Berlin in 1915, the son of a Jewish neurosurgeon. He fled Germany in 1933....
...Thursday’s near-four-hour show at London’s Royal Albert Hall was the penultimate date. It was a strange and fascinating occasion, far from the schmaltz-fest I had feared....
...According to Dennis Nothdruft, curator at the Fashion and Textile Museum, “Designers are mixing things up nowadays....
...Albert Woods, vice-chairman, British Olympics Association . MEMBER MBE Margaret Alphonsi, England rugby player. Nigel Ashcroft, project director, Next Generation Broadband Cornwall....
...Selections by Clive Cookson … SPORT Stillness and Speed: My Story, by Dennis Bergkamp, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20 This has been an excellent year for football autobiographies....
...Dennis Hopper, incidentally, who played the psychotic Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, had his Venice, LA house designed by his friend Frank Gehry....
...As Dennis Nothdruft, curator of the museum, explains: “Stage costumes give a framework that is more than just suits.”...
...Visiting them swiftly became a macabre rite of passage, until Dr Dennis Spencer, the Cushing Professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, decided they had to be restored to their former glory....
...and Polish cubism (Henri Hayden’s tableau of newspaper, pipe and glass set within a diamond form), and the now-forgotten Parisian theorists Jean Metzinger (the flattened, diagram-like “Scaffolding”) and Albert...
...Though Glass’s dabbling in ancient Mexican culture comes dangerously close to cliché, the music is more varied, the harmonies richer, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies still...
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