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...Marion Willingham Frizzi Krella: Paris – 9 Rue de l’Université is published by Kerber at €30 SEE Betty Parsons at Alison Jacques in London American gallerist and artist Betty Parsons (1900-82) nurtured...
...But we like things to look rustic, so we haven’t done much to the kitchen apart from painting it yellow – Corngold by Farrow & Ball. It’s the warmest room in the house, with an Aga....
...One terrific piece by Martin Creed – a crumpled ball of paper housed in a Perspex box on a plinth – stands by the fireplace; a reminder of the trials and tribulations of the creative process....
...Latham & Watkins has named Sarah Fortt and Betty Moy Huber as partners and global co-chairs of its ESG practice alongside Paul Davies....
...And [former model] Betty Catroux, whom I know well. I love the way she drinks white wine, the way she couldn’t care less about what’s happening around her or about her image....
...He points to two small watercolour paintings by his mother Betty that depict the landscape of Australia’s Magnetic Island....
...You guys are picking up sticks and balls and hitting them around’ . . ....
...(“My mother’s balls are legendary”)....
...Vaccarello had channelled the spirit of the Eighties, and the energy of the house icons such as Bianca Jagger, Catherine Deneuve and Betty Catroux, to find his silhouette, and it seems so right for now....
...variations on “Le Smoking”: a classic black worn alongside a skinny Gérard Depardieu for the New York premiere of The Last Metro; and a white version worn with a fuller-figured Depardieu at the Frankfurt Opera Ball...
...It is the latest in an astonishing roll-call of avian accomplishments discovered over the past 20 years, from Betty the crow, who bent a straight wire into a hook to lift food from a box, to experiments...
...“I cannot understand the mentality of the people who buy houses here only to knock them down,” says Judith Kirk, who helps run Betty’s in Mawgan Porth — a tobacconist’s in the winter that transmogrifies...
...Her silver and coral necklace is covered in granulation work — tiny balls of precious metal — and although it was made by Kazakhs in Afghanistan, this is, she says, a technique seen on ancient Greek and...
...Paddy Power said it was merging with Betfair and calling itself Betty Power in a spoof tweet last month, but it’s not joking now....
...White-gloved hands apply dark chocolate squiggles to eggs the size of rugby balls, while others receive applications of tiny primroses and daffodils piped in royal icing....
...Betty Boothroyd, a former Speaker, once told me how she spent her youth in the 1940s thrilling to the speeches given on Saturday mornings in the heart of Huddersfield and Dewsbury by visiting politicians...
...Sweaty Betty has long-sleeved yoga T-shirts (£39) that you could pair with leggings by Bodyism (£95)....
...Inside, he’s told to close his eyes and put his hands out, and “what felt like a series of porcelain balls or figurines” is placed into them....
...Where fashion plays out is in the details, as in a Peter Pan-collared polo from Sweaty Betty “for a gamine presence on court”....
...I ought to have been slitting open invitations to christenings and masked balls with an ivory paper knife, I felt, while dropping remarks of casual brilliance to wildly agog companions....
...However, Turkish artist Can Altay’s outsized mirror ball-esque doorknobs (“Distributed”), found across famous buildings in Waltham Forest, could leave most members of the public cold....
...Ed Balls, shadow chancellor, is waiting to pounce if the evidence were to accumulate that Mr Osborne’s plan is responsible for higher unemployment and sluggish growth....
...Fields of lush green grass, grazed by racehorses and cows, are interspersed with orchards of apple trees full of balls of mistletoe and covered with thick blossom....
...I had just returned from a landmark tap dancing lesson in which I had mastered that natty little chorus girl stand-by, the step-ball-change-pick-up toe-hop....
...Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth came to dance at balls, and it was here that Elizabeth was first seen in public with her future husband....
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