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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The newer generations want to express themselves without fear.”...
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...However, livestream shopping has not yet taken off in western markets as it has in China....
...Yet Paula Rego at Tate Britain rang out magnificently for its radicalism — no painter has more inventively subverted male tradition to express women’s experience....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...Russian rhetoric is also heating up over Ukraine, with western allies increasingly worried that Moscow may intervene in the country’s eastern border regions....
...(FT) Serbia has become the first European country to start using China's Sinopharm vaccine after its efforts to obtain western vaccines were frustrated....
...He had already moved up from Class V to Class IV. I watched a replay of the Stockholm Sprint Championship, where he had fought off Bright Knight and Gandalf the White to win by a nose....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...There is growing optimism that a “V-shaped” rebound — which had been widely dismissed only a month ago — could be on the horizon....
...Chart du jour: PMIs hit a V Europe’s economies may be heading for sharp bounceback in activity after the relaxation of lockdown measures, according to a closely watched survey of businesses....
...sam.fleming@ft.com; @sam1fleming Chart du jour: Boris v Corbyn Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn went head to head in their first election TV debate on Tuesday night as polling suggests the Tory leader...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Trans-Europe Express Customs controls Der Spiegel reports there is growing EU pressure on Ireland to accept controls on the border with Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...But clients are increasingly asking for probability-based terms [to express outcomes] . . ....
...EU v Poland latest Brussels has opened a new front in its battle with Warsaw, launching infringement proceedings related to the country's contested supreme court overhaul (FT)....
...When she does express herself openly, it is usually in set-piece speeches or bland conversations with diplomats or subjects....
...Amsterdam v Airbnb Amsterdam, which is expecting 18m tourists this year, wants to ban the accommodation sharing service from parts of the city....
...“The western idea of beauty comes from a Greek tradition of perfection, harmony and symmetry....
...I have witnessed the rapid transformation of a rookie politician into a national leader with some of the strongest executive powers in any western democracy and, after the first round of voting in the legislative...
...Morocco’s footballers are heroes to them because they strongly express Moroccan identity.”...
...No words could better express the art of V. S. Gaitonde....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...Lily Le Brun Photographs: Mike Kitcatt/V&A; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Christina Smith/V&A; Kawaii Monster Café Harajuku; Gion; Pip Barnard/V&A; A Astes/Alamy; James Jaron/V&A...
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