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...He will be succeeded by vice-chair Archie Norman, chair of FTSE 100 retailer Marks and Spencer and a former Conservative party MP....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...But it’s not a Norman Rockwell painting.” Do the mothers get on? “Not with each other,” Isaacson jokes....
...What’s the full name of the organisation of which Frances O’Grady, Norman Willis and Vic Feather have been general secretaries?...
...So says Norman Foster, an architect so committed to a tech future that he has designed a glass “infinite loop” for Apple at its Cupertino HQ....
...The Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela, visited in 1170 and reported that the king used to take trips on the palace lake in gold and silver-clad boats “with his women”....
...I first heard it on a tour of Orford’s 12th-century castle keep — it and the Norman church tower over the village like sunflowers....
...An inspired English teacher introduced him to the work of Benjamin Zephaniah and Linton Kwesi Johnson....
...Think of Norman Tebbit saying that his fellow Conservative and prime minister John Major had a “mulishness of a weak man with stupidity” or Neil Kinnock, the then Labour leader, calling Lord Tebbit “a wart...
...The year 1875 gives us Sarah Bernhardt, Marcel Proust and Einstein; 1881 is the turn of Benjamin Disraeli, Emma Lazarus, author of the poem that adorns the Statue of Liberty, Eliezer Perlman, inventor of...
...But I’m with the critic Walter Benjamin, who went from reading Goethe to reading popular culture. He mined meaning from shopping arcades, word puzzles, cityscapes and Russian toys....
...That was the verdict of the then Bank of England governor on Montagu Norman, who, five years later, was to take over the top job....
...Norman Foster is not designing the exhibition at the villa, only the Borsani retrospective. Villa Borsani is not Osvaldo’s former home....
...Benjamin Disraeli was an enormously prolific popular novelist....
...Launched in 2015 and selected by exuberant curator Norman Rosenthal, the first year included displays of Pacific Island fishhooks, Japanese netsuke and Maiolica clustered in small booths....
...The German cultural critic Walter Benjamin famously called Paris the “capital of the 19th century”; but it has yet to reinvent itself for the 21st....
...A bright-eyed male vocal quartet — Daniel Norman, Nicky Spence, Benjamin Appl and Stephan Loges — brought these innocent trifles to life. Sholto Kynoch was the accompanist....
...Behind the Benjamin bar in his new hotel (which serves old Hungarian Tokays and other rare wines by the spoonful), three stations run on the wide screens: Bloomberg, Fox News and the sports network ESPN....
...The fair prides itself on the frequency with which its galleries graduate to booths at Frieze and its reputation as an early champion of artists including Ryan Gander, Benjamin Senior and Christian Jankowski...
...Architect Norman Foster’s vast, sloping yurt gleams at one end of the main boulevard. All around are five-star hotels and western fast-food chains....
...By the turn of the century Benjamin Franklin, Casanova and Rousseau had all produced accounts of their lives....
...Norman Tebbit, a pit bull rightwing loyalist in Thatcher’s glory days, barked in response that Lord Powell was an “apparatchik” guilty of disguising the reality that, the longer her career progressed, the...
...Designed by arms manufacturer Lord William Armstrong and his architect Richard Norman Shaw (designer of the original New Scotland Yard building), Cragside, in Northumbria, looks strikingly picturesque and...
...Last year, for example, the NYPL abandoned controversial plans to turn part of the Fifth Avenue research branch into a lending library, with designs from Britain’s Sir Norman Foster....
...The conflict has laid bare the deepening cultural divide between Israel’s coastal elite and the conservative voters who re-elected Benjamin Netanyahu in March for a fourth term....
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