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...Between 1966 and 1968, Bacon made 10 large-scale portraits (more than 6ft high) of Dyer, with whom he had a passionate and ultimately destructive relationship — Dyer died from an overdose just before Bacon...
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...Though the FT recently dropped its ban on use of the F-word and other profanities, I will spare Swampians their blushes by forbearing from direct quotation....
...United Airlines said it was expecting about 30,000 inbound international travellers on Monday, a 50 per cent increase from a week earlier, and president Brett Hart said the Chicago-based carrier predicted...
...Brett Scott, a former broker turned “financial anthropologist”, looks ahead to a world of only cashless transactions in Cloudmoney (Bodley Head, May) and asks who wins — and who loses....
...It is an incredible business model,” says Brett Simpson, a tech analyst at Arete, an independent research firm....
..., by Brett Christophers, Verso, RRP£25, 512 pages This book defines and describes the “rentier capitalism” that, alas, characterises substantial parts of the UK economy....
...Four decades ago, the country was more homogeneous and its politics less tribal, even amid the war in Vietnam, the aftermath of the civil rights movement, and the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin...
...Am I a f***ing baby?”....
...It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, f***ability”....
...This is an edited extract from “The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand” by Geoff Dyer, published next month by the University of Texas Press, £48/$60 All pictures courtesy of the Garry Winogrand Archive...
...Even the genteel Four Weddings and a Funeral featured an opening scene comprising nothing but the F word, something we all forgot to mention to our mothers when recommending it....
...(FT) Back off, millennials The FT’s Pilita Clark checks in with the 2006 author of Please Just F* Off, It’s Our Turn Now, which called for job-hogging baby boomers to drop out of the workforce....
...“Too f***ing sad to write about,” Horovitz explains in its pages. “Even when we were a hardcore band we were completely goofing around and not taking it very seriously,” Diamond says....
...Judge F Dennis Saylor, who is overseeing the case, disagreed. He issued an injunction in favour of C&W earlier this month....
...We are in the midst of the embittered Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh....
...John F Kennedy had money. It’s not what your bank account is. It’s what you believe. It’s what you’re fighting for. Money doesn’t define me....
...“You just look like a f**king idiot. I think it’s almost time to hand the baton to a younger generation of dealers and artists.”...
..., actor, Emilia Fox, actor, David Jason, actor, Rosie Marcel, actor, Adam Woodyatt, actor£150,000 - £200,000 Laurie Brett, actor, Letitia Dean, actor, Tameka Empson, actor and contributor, Guy Henry, actor...
...“I don’t think it has been fully tested yet,” says Brett Himbury, chief executive of IFM Investors, the A$98bn Australian fund house....
...In the case of the F-35, almost 8,000 test flights are needed before approval....
...“We now have all the pieces in place to get Daesh out of Mosul,” says Brett McGurk, US special envoy to the anti-Isis coalition. Many unknowns loom in the battle ahead....
...Richard Nixon had an unusually confrontational relationship with the CIA when he became president in 1969, after blaming the agency for helping John F Kennedy in the 1960 election....
...The main strike aircraft operated by the Saudi air force are US-supplied F-15s and UK supplied Tornados and Typhoons....
...Brett McGurk, US special envoy to the anti-Isis coalition, said: “We now have all the pieces in place to get Daesh [Isis] out of Mosul.” Many factors remain unknown in the battle ahead....
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