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...Another man at the table is younger, fresh-faced, with a look of bland good humour. He says his name is “2K”, and got here at the start of the summer after some time on the road....
...Such narratives provoke an emotional response in a way no bland exhibit label ever could....
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...When she does express herself openly, it is usually in set-piece speeches or bland conversations with diplomats or subjects....
...Then there’s the landscaping, a series of terraces coping with the level changes from bridge to street and riverside which is pleasant but, frankly, a little bland....
...It may occasionally use design to impart a fabricated identity on bland and overpriced developments....
...Wong is already the subject of a Netflix documentary, Teenager v Superpower....
...My halibut is bland and overcooked, but I don’t have the heart to tell her....
Chinese fans angered after pitch problems thwart United v City match
...The score, mixed live by musician and DJ Ori Lichtik, provides the movement with a bland, relentless techno pulse....
...“The Chinese economy is slowing down and this is a structural slowdown so we don’t think there will be a V-shaped recovery any time soon. There’s no quick fix.”...
...Helmed by a leading scientist, home to some of the nation’s biggest technology companies and the site for a new V&A-backed design museum, Shenzhen is the posterchild for economic reform and smart city planning...
...The postboxes, which bear the Hong Kong Post Office logo, carry a range of royal ciphers including those of George V, George VI and Elizabeth II, as well as one that features the Scottish crown....
...“The Hong Kong room had a glass bathroom wall here,” he adds, pointing to a bland wall featuring an obligatory hotel watercolour....
...Mr Peña Nieto, who jets around the country almost daily in a slick suit, delivers speeches at public works inaugurations that sound remarkably similar, perhaps because they are bland....
...Beauty contests were banned in China by Mao Zedong as one of the worst forms of western decadence but their bland internationalism appeals to modern China’s desire to be included....
...But perhaps out of loyalty to bland Aminta, he ironed out his trademark luxuriance. Only dullards pine for the impossible, Ashton suggests....
...But staying on Foxton’s, there was this bland disclosure of risks in its listing prospectus: The Group is subject to laws and regulations with which it may be found to be non-compliant.The Group could be...
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...Angela Gilbey, design director of Coppernob, a British high street supplier to more than 20 commercial chains including Debenhams and Wallis, says: “After a summer of fizzy prints and bland pastels, these...
...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...
...Munich’s excellent Beckmann holdings were the starting point, but stellar loans – a crop of Picasso masterpieces plus, among others, “Woman II” from New York’s MoMA , its gaudy follow-up “Woman V” from the...
...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?...
...V....
...On its new “V” platform it is building the Micra at plants in China, Thailand, India and Mexico....
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