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...The sea of dancers in blue when the curtain rises is reminiscent of Balanchine’s Serenade, but instead of Tchaikovsky, a distinctly pop “woo!” from Blake sets them into motion....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...One of the first visits I made to Norland was in January last year for a lecture on etiquette by Katherine Lewis of Debrett’s, the manners and behaviour coaching company....
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...s parent company....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...The new law is not a bolt from the blue....
...In a report this year, Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley looked at how the money is divided up in the German life insurance industry....
...But if you’re a shareholder in a UK life assurance company, you’ll be happy to know that they’ve got a spare £1.5bn in their pockets from early deaths, and there’s likely more where that came from....
...(FT) Video of the day A life of boom and bust Crisis after crisis has made Argentina the only nation ever to regress to developing country status....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...and family life and the protection of personal data....
...blue-rubber-gloved hand....
...DH Lawrence, who visited the island in 1921, wrote about discovering “a sense of space, which is so lacking in Italy . . . it is like liberty itself.”...
...‘The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014’, V&A, London, April 5-July 27, www.vam.ac.uk ——————————————- ‘He burnt through money, friends, lovers and life’ Although his name is not widely known, designer...
...sector, which numbers some 200 companies....
...Katherine Boo Author of ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum’ Benjamin Moser’s new translation of Clarice Lispector’s 1977 novella The Hour of the Star (New Directions...
...Foreign companies, for example, are wary of doing business here these days, given its perceived – and actual – lack of security. Mansha and his executive team have to fly to Dubai instead, he says....
...For quality of life, in terms of freedom and the rule of law even more than in material well-being, the US is still a world away from China, and that is a lead that shows little sign of being eroded....
...the Rolling Stones guitarist’s life, encompassing drab postwar childhood, blues worship, bacchanalia and bitchy asides about Keef’s great lost love: Mick Jagger....
...of AIG’s American International Assurance....
...Our driver, Guillaume, in matching dusty blue V-neck and cloth cap, is escorting me and my seven-year-old son, Raphael, on a tour of “Unexpected Paris”....
...The bonds were issued by life assurance investor Resolution before it was taken over by Pearl in 2007....
...line that appears equally sympathetic to the uncluttered aesthetics of modernism. €1,400. www.von-zezschwitz.de v Pitcher Archibald Knox In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Liberty & Co of London...
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