Hints and tips:
...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
...been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding thousands of pounds, the Times’s Billy Kenber revealed....
...“The table was meant to be something you’d find at an old English country house where the wife was French.”...
...Pantomime isn’t exactly the first thing you’d expect at a hip-hop festival....
...“No one knew where we were – we’d head out and not be back until teatime,” he says of those years....
...“Vins d’Exception wines are based on terroirs....
...At the start of this year, though, I felt a strong urge to embrace everything I’d normally reject. I have no idea why: perhaps it was the “serious person” gene finally kicking in. Whatever....
...She’s played, in the merest cameo of a cameo, by Marthe Keller, who was the Garbo-like diva in Billy Wilder’s 1978 Fedora....
...I’d advise coming here for something more substantial than a flat white....
...Sahm: The way I’d frame it is that the stakes are higher and higher for doing spending in a responsible way....
...In the morning we set off to explore anyway, led by two guides from the Ecole du Ski Français, Thierry Delecluse and Gilles Olivier....
...And the best gift that I’ve received was a necklace by the French sculptor César, from my friend Olivier Bialobos at Dior about 15 years ago. The pendant is a compression of old bits of jewellery....
...Socialist party leader Olivier Faure mocked Macron’s earlier pledge to make violence against women a priority: “This president believes nothing of what he announces, regardless of the subject.”...
...Rima Abdul Malak, who annoyed Macron by saying actor Gérard Depardieu should be stripped of his Légion d’honneur over allegations of sexual harassment, was ousted to make room for Dati....
...His home, built originally for the Marquis d’Aubigné, appeals to his love of period architecture and childhood memories of his father’s 17th-century country pile, which was stuffed with antiques and tapestries...
...“Sure, saving £100 on wine a month might save me £1,200 a year, but that’s a drop in the ocean compared with what I’d need for a house deposit,” says Billy Ford, a 29-year-old data scientist and wine hobbyist...
...He made Pippa Middleton’s wedding dress in 2017, and dressed Billy Porter in a gold-feathered bodice and skirt, incorporating a digital print of the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, for the 2020 Academy...
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...Between the quaint backdrop and imaginative premise, you’d be forgiven for expecting a breezy show full of gentle whimsy....
...“Maybe I will make it to five years,” he’d say....
...She also toured intensively as a performer, leading the Carla Bley Band with Mantler, Swallow, the trombonist Roswell Rudd and drummer D Sharpe....
...Speaking in Cote d’Ivoire ahead of the annual World Bank and IMF meetings in Marrakech, Kristalina Georgieva highlighted “strong momentum” in the US economy, also singling out India as a bright spot....
...The view, articulated by Milton Friedman half a century ago, boils down to “potential output is independent of monetary policy”, as the economist Olivier Blanchard wrote in 2018....
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...“If money were to grow on trees, we’d be fine with it,” a third EU diplomat remarked, adding that it was “very difficult to find fresh money for anything else than Ukraine”....
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