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...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...Instead, Spotify has hired three banks — Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co — to act as financial advisers....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...They hover first in the theatre foyer, silent individuals in balaclavas and combat gear, then take to the stage singing The Pogues’ “A Pair of Brown Eyes”....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...modern military fatigues and lusty singing (in effect the Propeller house style for the more martial history plays), and the same bewildering choice of an English army belting out The Pogues’ “A Pair Of Brown...
...Leading exponents include Daniel Brown, whose animated floral wallpaper – a light projection activated by self-generative computer software to evolve “organically” – is in the V&A show Decode: Digital Design...
...Gripping, geekily detailed accounts of what it was like to ride a Saturn V or walk on another world are interspersed with a lively take on the cold war rivalry that made it happen....
...The favourite bar-room game is guessing the shape of the recession: V, U, W, L? A chance to dig out the old Rolf Harris impression: “D’you know what it is yet?...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Knopf) In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce (2006, Little Brown) India: Emerging Power, Stephen P....
...Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, by Philippe Legrain Published by Princeton University Press (US), Little, Brown (UK) The book argues for freer migration, one of the most emotive topics in the political...
...Reba Brown Augusta, USA Christian Stracke: Mrs Brown, I would say the real risks right now are probably more linked to saturated housing markets rather than interest rate risk....
...A softly spoken Californian with receding, light-brown hair and Woody Allen-esque glasses, he has lived in London since the late 1980s and has a bookish innocence....
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