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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Then the Americans came....
...Anna Wintour chose him to shoot her first American Vogue cover in 1988; featuring a model in a Christian Lacroix jacket and jeans, it was considered a revolutionary shift away from the strictures of glamour...
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Their ambassadors to the US wrote a joint letter last month to Washington’s National Interest magazine dismissing the summit as a product of “cold war mentality” that would heighten the dangers of “ideological...
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...House of Cards, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black to brag about until the cavalry — Stranger Things, Narcos et al — arrived....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The CDC only issued a cryptic tweet advising Americans to: “Follow the instructions on the product label.” “I can’t even get my calls returned,” says Garrett....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Although it is now the “new naturalism” of Oudolf et al that is resented, the struggle to define this corrupting Dutch influence continues....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...She also treated her own body like a canvas, swathing some areas in grey and leaving the great white V of a neck exposed....
...to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...As Eric Porter, professor of American Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of New Orleans Suite, told me, “There’s a lot of love for the product of black culture but not for the communities...
...But that shouldn’t detract from the likelihood that longer term the impact of a Trump presidency for the UK as it grapples with Brexit will be negative. David Blanchflower, Bruce V....
...Worst case, it could be a bumpy ride. But, absent that, I expect the resilience shown so far following the June vote will continue. David Blanchflower, Bruce V....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...A column called “High-tech home” warily appraised a novel bit of kit that was already a vital part of Americans’ social lives: the telephone answering machine....
...His answer is that the attackers were “the product of a system” sustained by the revenues that flow from oil....
...Rocky V (1990)....
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