Hints and tips:
...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...To have a helpless, fluttering co-diva play stooge to Davis saying: “But ya are, Blanche, ya are.”...
...Mature, refreshing and a bargain. 16% Graham’s 20-Year-Old Tawny NV Port £29 The Wine Society, £29.99 Waitrose, £38.95 Davy’s, £39.20 Hedonism and others This is the optimum age for most ports aged in...
...Stockists from winesearcher.com Illustration by Graham Roumieu...
...Lincs) • Phelan Ségur, St-Estèphe (£35 The Wine Society) • Ségla, Margaux (£300 a dozen in bond, Farr Vintners) • And all Sauternes Tasting notes on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com Illustration by Graham...
...Operators of the French Terre Blanche resort, between Nice and Cannes, sell complete villas priced up to £2.12m (terre-blanche.com)....
...Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the London Magazine editor Alan Ross (Commander Ross of The Man with the Golden Gun), Stephen Spender, Cecil Beaton and Anthony Eden all stayed there....
...Gentle. 12% £11.95 Berry Bros, www.bbr.com, 0800 280 2440 Poulet NV Clairette de Die Seventy-five per cent Muscat with Clairette Blanche....
...Blanche McIntyre’s production matches the play in quality and approach. The cast is splendid....
...He calls her “Bail-out Blanche” for supporting Wall Street during the financial crisis. She calls him “Dollar Bill”, suggesting he has close ties to big business....
...The Symingtons put their all into this, their debut vintage of Graham’s. Perfumed, plummy and utterly hedonistic....
...Incumbent Blanche Lincoln had 44.5 per cent to challenger Bill Halter's 42.5 per cent, with a third candidate, DC Morrison, faring surprisingly well with 13 per cent – double what he was scoring in pre-election...
...Harry Blain and Graham Southern, the two lynchpins of London’s Haunch of Venison, owned by Christie’s, are leaving the gallery. “It’s an amicable departure,” Blain told me....
...Graham Stevens, New York SD: All regulators suffer delusions of adequacy. So I am sure that they will all put up their hand....
...However, it matters not how much research she did or did not do, for it blanches into insignificance beside the monstrous efforts put into making Ratatouille as realistic as possible....
...Graham Shear, Mr Cole?s solicitor, claims the rule amounts to a restraint of trade....
...General Aussaresses and other senior officers were given carte blanche to do whatever was necessary, and succeeded, up to a point. Half a million Algerians died and the rebellion came to a halt....
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