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...War-trophy Cassandra and powerless servant Cilissa, played with fierce integrity by Nina Bowers and Kate Stanley Brennan, add to the female voices caught up in the blood-soaked sequel to a gruesome war....
...A friend of ours came up with the idea of opening half of it as a retro surf shop,” says Perry Walsh....
...Where so many large houses were being destroyed — more than 270 in the three decades after 1945 were documented in the 1974 V&A exhibition The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975 — Chatsworth confounded...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...The ever-excellent Dom Walsh at the Times stood up a rumour doing the rounds last week that AA might return to private equity ownership in order to fix some of the problems created between 2004 and 2014...
...I like to think I can still discover things in them that can’t be found online. rarebooks.ie The best gift I’ve given recently was a set of Cuttings V wine glasses by Martino Gamper for J Hill’s Standard...
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...David Bowers of absolute strategy in London suggests that we should keep an eye on credit, and particularly the high-yield market....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Letter in response to this article: BOAC set the standard for a national carrier’s service / From R D V Kite...
...V. Goings, chief executive of Tupperware Brands, noting that he has denied requests from presidents of “both parties” to give speeches at its corporate campus....
...Their initial work at Farnborough from 1947 – regarded by peers as their most influential – was on the Handley Page Victor V-bomber....
...The bright clothes of Chrissie Walsh and Georgina Godley are also here, and there is plenty of Lycra....
...Sweet Revenge, Tom Bower’s insightful biography, narrates his string of failures in the business before the revolution of Pop Idol....
...Fight Global Poverty , by Abhijit V....
...The V&A’s triumph here is to demonstrate the common ground between such disparate figures....
...Ever the engineering patriot, he strokes some Bowers & Wilkins speakers, made in Britain, before sitting on a sofa with a mere nine cushions....
...It also owns bed retailer Dreams, the V.Ships ship management business, and debt recovery specialists Lowell....
...Action, slapstick, brouhaha: at times we beg director David Bowers to take a lesson in artful stillness from Miguel Arteta....
...Paradoxically, the biggest risk to companies may be that policymakers throw ‘everything they have got’ at the economy and succeed in creating a V-shaped recovery in demand....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...Sam Walsh, the head of Rio Tinto’s iron ore unit speaking at the same conference on Tuesday, said it was unclear whether the world would undergo a “V” or a “W” shaped recovery....
...Irish playwright Enda Walsh has a thing about nightclubs....
...Mr Walsh said the Swedish government was in the process of distributing an offering memorandum for V&S, as it moves to privatise the company, and that he expected a formal process to start in September....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Last week Paul Walsh, chief executive, said Diageo planned to expand further into premium brands such as the Blue Label King George V edition of its Johnnie Walker whisky, which sells for $500....
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