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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....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...— Bernard Bouche says: “To me, he’s a highly intellectual and demanding artist who doesn’t conform to the current market trends....
...Gill, March; Brian Smith, Ayrshire Polymath 1,023: Peter Tarleton, Ireland Crossword 16170: Chris Todd-Davies, Reading; Elaine Chance, Tamworth, Staffordshire; M Rennie, Aberdour Polymath 1022: Elayne Murphy...
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...During those heady years between the wars, everyone who was anyone spent time at the Hotel du Cap: Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, John...
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...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 stunning evening took place at one of London’s most distinguished addresses 25 Berkeley Square, hosted by luxury property developers St George....
...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....
...The ruling, in a case known as King v Burwell, centred on a key tenet of the ACA: who should be eligible for tax credits that subsidise health insurance purchased by poorer consumers....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
...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...
...Suzi Feay Children’s The Terrible Two, by Mac Barnett and Jory John, Amulet Books RRP£8.99/$13.95 Schoolboy Miles Murphy thinks he is the greatest practical joker ever, until he moves to Yawnee Valley...
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