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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Three of Gunning’s buys feature in the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto....
...The so-called “grave goods” were meant to follow their owners into the afterlife. In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...Finally the news came that Volodymyr’s body had been found in a mass grave in the Izyum forest, among hundreds of other victims....
...As it chronicles how facts have held less sway than punchy PR, Big Oil v The World sadly seems destined to suffer the same fate....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...At the Bargello, the republic’s oldest public palace, “St George” stands firmly, legs apart, handsome, with regular features, knitted brow and grave gaze, vibrant with compressed energy — an emblem of secular...
...When Kyiv regained control, officials found mass graves of civilians, and heard accounts of the sort of atrocities now being uncovered on a larger scale in Kyiv’s suburbs....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Mr Centeno warned that the EU faced a grave situation if it failed to act decisively now....
...Two senior Democratic lawmakers have warned the Federal Reserve and other US regulators that it would be a “grave error” to extend looser capital requirements that were introduced for US banks at the start...
...Until now, Palestinian health officials had been counting on the WHO’s Covax initiative and a possible shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to provide the bulk of its requirements....
...Mass unemployment is a grave risk. A dose of reality came within a day of his statement when retail chains announced thousands of job cuts....
...“It is the only one of its kind to be found in the UK, and one of only seven known examples in the world,” according to the V&A....
...“This is not a V-shaped recovery,” they said. In South Korea, the PMI fell from 48.7 in February to 44.2 in March, the worst in 11 years....
...Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy, must be smiling in his grave....
...Earlier data increases our economists conviction in a V-shaped recovery: Economic data in aggregate have continued to surprise to the upside, building our confidence in a V-shaped recovery....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...But the vigorous outlines they trace around their bodies, then fill in as if digging towards a grave freedom, seem driven by inner compulsion....
...The grave belongs to Georgi Markov, the Bulgarian writer and dissident who was poked in the leg with a poisoned umbrella as he walked over London’s Waterloo Bridge in 1978....
...“The old man would turn in his grave at that,” Ercol’s chairman Edward Tadros says cheerfully....
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