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...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...He took it up at school and was taught in St Ives by Bernard Leach, co-founder of Leach Pottery, before setting up a studio in Durweston in Dorset....
...Martin Hutson, as Bernard, seems pinched and shrunken by his xenophobia....
...It’s a divide that played out at the shows, where black velvet and gold were the look du jour, and at retail: on Wednesday Balenciaga opened a pair of “couture stores” on the Avenue George V, where clients...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...She was a pioneering feminist, founder of the Women’s Guild of Art and a spurned suitor of George Bernard Shaw, who later enjoyed a relationship with her “companion” Mary Lobb....
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...He wrote on Twitter that he and his wife, Cilia Flores, received the jab along with frontline medical personnel....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of rival luxury group LVMH, then announced he would pledge twice that....
...The guest in question, George Bernard Shaw, is said to have replied that she need not worry: he always slept with his eyes shut....
...This month marks a century since the Order of the British Empire was created in its modern form by King George V for those who had served in non-combatant roles in the first world war....
...The Michelin guide, Europe’s oldest hotel and restaurant guide, also gave its maximum three-star rating to French chef Christian Le Squer’s Le Cinq at Paris’s George V hotel....
...But his proudest civil rights achievement was Loving v Virginia....
...In photographs, Parmegiani appears to belong to a much earlier era – George V beard, home-knit sweaters, often a pipe in hand – and his work has been dismissed as cerebral and austere, the stuff of post-grad...
...Perhaps Shakespeare himself sensed the irony of this, for he may have used her as the model for the Dowager Countess of Roussillon in All’s Well That Ends Well, the character which George Bernard Shaw described...
...Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi investor whose interests range from the Hotel George V in Paris to a stake in Twitter, announced on Monday that he had “severed ties” with the Forbes billionaires list...
...There’s no question that “bardolatry”, as George Bernard Shaw disparagingly termed Will-worship, has reached new heights this year, with a flood of productions and events at the Globe, in Stratford-upon-Avon...
...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?...
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...up residence in the V&A’s permanent collection....
...the Partito Democratico and former Minister of the Republic (Undersecretary of State for Foreign affairs in 1996, Minister of International trade in 1998 and Minister of Justice in 2001) USA Richard V....
...Terry Pawson’s Visual centre for contemporary art and George Bernard Shaw Theatre is also a stunning work, while Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum in Rome gave the city its first major purpose-built contemporary...
...She employed a press secretary, Bernard Ingham, whose histrionic and aggressive loyalty made him a celebrated figure....
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