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...Final axelhttps://twitter.com/skatingarchive/status/1715927258207305905 The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating circuit kicked off last weekend with Skate America in Allen, Texas (more Texaissance!)....
...No one captured the contradiction more deftly than Woody Allen in his movie Manhattan, made in 1979, the end of Tom Wolfe’s “Me Decade”. “You call your analyst Donnie?”...
...The Weston-super-Mare-based group has factories in China, so for some products the switch means bypassing Britain entirely. Already 95 per cent of Eurocams’ annual revenues of £5m come from Europe....
...Chris Weston, Aggreko chief executive, thanked Ms Cran “for her support to me personally and for her outstanding dedication to Aggreko over many years”....
...Allen’s trio followed by pianist Randy Weston and saxophonist Billy Harper’s investigation of jazz’s African roots....
...her to sing on his 2013 hit single “Clarity”, Hampshire singer Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, is taking her solo album Glorious to the seaside for a one-off show....
...In this year’s national GCSE league tables for independent schools, James Allen’s Girls’ School (JAGS) came 10th, Alleyn’s School came 32nd and Dulwich College came 41st....
...Seal Team 666 , by Weston Ochse, Titan Books, RRP£7.99, 320 pages A hugely entertaining thriller about a unit of US Navy Seals that specialises in dealing with supernatural threats....
...It started at Louis Vuitton: last year their Stephen Sprouse leopard-print scarf (£455) was seen adorning the necks of the rich and famous, including Kate Moss, Keira Knightley, Lily Allen and Sarah Jessica...
...I thought about my friend Fran Lebowitz, who wears a blue blazer, white Charvet shirt, jeans and JM Weston shoes …a uniform she claims is the ideal for “not writing”....
...The smallest, the six-picture-deep Small Weston Gallery, is particularly skilfully hung this year....
...Extracted from ‘Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre’ by Dana Thomas (Allen Lane, £20. © Dana Thomas 2007....
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