Hints and tips:
...The album’s cover is a watercolour of the four musicians seated in a forest clearing, as if enjoying a safe-for-work “Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...The downstairs “Den” room, which I peeked into, has a terrace and a gorgeous trompe-l’oeil autumn-leaf design on the floor that made me briefly wonder if housekeeping had slacked off that day....
...Bobby Phillips voltaireandrousseaubooks.com...
...Pigasse is a punk rock aficionado and self-styled enfant terrible in the Parisian finance scene, with clients including Carrefour, Sanofi, L’Oréal and Danone, as well as working with colleagues on sovereign...
...The Morey family business started in 1953, when Morey’s father, Wilbert, built the Fantasy, a utilitarian L-shaped motel with a space-aged neon sign....
...When she sold her business to L’Oréal in 2006, the French cosmetics giant promised to safeguard her vision. Last month L’Oréal gave up and said it was considering selling The Body Shop....
...David Hammons’s “Injustice Case”, a shocking image of the Black Panther Bobby Seale bound and gagged in a US courtroom, is made from a body print, the frame wrapped in a cut-up US flag....
...“London is the best city at embracing change,” says Bobby Abley. “It’s really good at approaching the future while respecting its rich heritage.”...
...A subsequent cartoon in the French newspaper L’Equipe showed England’s midfielder Bobby Charlton driving a Rolls-Royce while referees dressed as British bobbies cleared opponents from his route....
...Banksy too would portray British bobbies, one of his best-known images being the two “Kissing Coppers” painted on the wall of a Brighton pub and sold for $575,000 last year in Miami....
...I loved the characters who step out — for no discernible reason — from trompe l’oeil backgrounds, patina’d into a pillar or optically immured in a mural....
...The buyback has been a possibility since Nestlé sold a chunk of its stake in L’Oréal back to the French cosmetics group in February for €6bn, but came in at the higher end of analysts’ forecasts....
...One of Lincoln’s marketing mottos was: “Always remember, the weak, meek and ignorant are always good sales targets.” Hundreds of other S&L executives were convicted. But Keating stood out....
...I would have described him, the first time I met him, as meek. That was back in 1997. He was working at Barcelona football club as assistant to the club’s then coach, Bobby Robson....
...… Is an L-shaped sofa in a very modern London apartment acceptable?...
...“I think this li’l lady is going to be massive,” no less an authority than Katy Perry recently confided to her 29m Twitter followers....
...The approach was what Meek would call speed-through....
...“The bible says the meek shall inherit the earth, but the question is will they stay meek?”, he said, arguing that it is not easy to displace a chief executive who is also chairman....
...Between Thor’s new life with Jane, the intrusion of an FBI-like organisation called S.H.I.E.L.D. and the chaos back in Asgard (where Loki is conspiring with the Frost Giants), there is plenty going on, with...
...In 1911, the American writer H.L....
...On the song, she sings, “sous la plume, l’abîme”, like an incantation, to eerie ambient bass effects from Billy Fuller. “What they write is the feather; the abyss is the risk they run.”...
...James Meeks, a black Baptist pastor and state senator, said Mr Emanuel had no political base in Chicago and was depending on his financial strength and White House connections....
...In L’Equipe’s view, any prediction is uncertain....
...He spent almost all his career in the City, starting in 1966 at broking firm L Messel & Co, which became part of Lehman in 1986....
...This discourse is mostly limited to specialist sports newspapers such as L’Equipe or Gazzetta dello Sport, and television programmes such as Match of the Day in the UK....
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