Hints and tips:
...In Athens, the exhibition shows a remarkable extra: 30 clay holders shaped like flower buds, found in the mass grave, with holes for a connecting wire, linking them into one or two wreaths....
...Most eco-shows are grave and preachy. Collishaw’s is conceptual art at its most rewarding: curious, inventive and fun....
...Little buds will appear, but there will not be enough strength for them to grow further, and the tree dies....
...Barsac and southern Graves and low-lying areas of St-Émilion. Vines near me took a hit and according to the viticultrice [local winegrower] had been bien cramées [really screwed up].”...
...How they came about unfolds splendidly here, beginning with big-eyed 1930s portraits and self-portraits, hieratic, monumental as Ingres, statuesque as Picasso — Gorky’s models — and grave as the Byzantine...
...And so we are sipping his favoured Bud Light Limes. One is disinclined to make a fuss when one is drinking out of the official glassware of the 82nd Airborne Division....
...Webb’s office sits just across the Potomac River from Washington DC, overlooking the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington and next to the eponymous national cemetery, which is populated with veterans’ graves,...
...Meanwhile Ms Willis has positioned Plum Baby as a “foodie” brand that educates babies’ taste-buds to prefer vitamin-rich “superfoods” to sweets and salty snacks....
...“Churchyard” jumbles tilting byzantine crosses against bare trees in a diffuse, caressing light which offsets fake pink and red flowers dotting the graves....
...Even before the global financial meltdown brought its own grave dangers, there had been a deepening sense of malaise, in large part the result of soaring prices, but also a reflection of fraying public services...
...I hope they are setting buds somewhere this weekend. Back in China, similar great peonies had also begun by having a restricted circulation....
...There seems to be a particular cluster of rich over-achievement in Pomerol just west of Ch Cheval Blanc (whereas most red Graves are simpler, prettier wines)....
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