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...Saint Laurent x Salone del Mobile A collaboration between Saint Laurent Rive Droite, the Gio Ponti archives and the Anala and Armando Planchart Foundation, this exhibition curated by Anthony Vaccarello...
...C-suites are crying out for Armando Iannucci to spruce things up....
...Hear Me Out: All My Music, by Armando Iannucci, Little, Brown, RRP£14.99 Arbiters of taste are given short shrift as comedy writer Armando Iannucci delves into why he turned to classical music....
...We have come a long way from the furore surrounding Kenneth Tynan’s first use of the F-word on the BBC in 1965....
...“The whole valley is muy rustico and this place,” he pointed enthusiastically to the aged beams above us, “is rustico as f***.”...
...Notorious examples of offences against piety and decorum in the arts, such as Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ”, are routinely trotted out to justify the elimination of public support for the arts....
...Keeping educated young Republicans like Jessica Fernandez and Armando Ibarra in his camp is also crucial....
...In one scene she yells thrillingly at her staff: “I am the vice-president of the United States, you stupid little f*****s!” And when they’re not raging, these people are super-articulate....
...“When you bring in lots of measures to control the exchange rate you end up disrupting the market, so it’s pretty stagnant nowadays,” says Flavio Serrano, an economist with Banco Espírito Santo in São Paulo...
...“It feels like the end of the world here,” said Flavio Serrano, a senior economist with Banco Espírito Santo in São Paulo....
...The artist, all moody aggression, punctures her efforts to understand it with “It’s not f****n’ complicated! Christ!” – and she collapses into babble-gush – “Awesome! Fabulous!”...
...(“Now f*** off and cover something important, you twats.”)...
...The Thai air force was slated to take delivery of US F-18 fighter jets when the 1997 Asian financial crisis forced the armed forces to postpone all new weapons procurement....
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