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...thought I had, until Harley-Davidson recently offered me a fortnight’s loan of its craftily named Freewheeler, a luxury trike powered not by feeble, four-year-old legs but by one of Milwaukee’s finest V-Twin...
...Among the more challenging shows was Mexican artist Sebastián Solórzano Rodríguez (a 2014-15 protégé) performing his work [÷] v.0.8 : Boléro, which involved him practising 15 minutes of amplified heavy breathing...
...The production, described by the Evening Standard as “a love letter to theatre”, is based on the dramatic encounter between Richard Burton and John Gielgud when they were making Hamlet on Broadway....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...Lily Cole, inspired by her mentor, the conservationist John Burton, is planning to sell her flat, buy land and then return it to nature via rewilding....
...Becky Fatemi, property agentEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown This was given to me by a friend, the designer Marc Jacques Burton....
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...It follows an odd trend in entertainment where hit documentaries are now broadcast almost concurrently with their fictional dramatisations, such as The Staircase, The People v OJ Simpson, and the podcast...
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...petrol-powered two-wheelers since the age of six — and with a collection of 15 of them currently jammed into my garage — I can’t say I’m looking forward to the day when the mellifluous bark of my Ducati’s V-Twin...
...Suzuki’s contender is the V-Strom 650 (from £7,999 and £1,590 for a luggage kit), while Kawasaki weighs in with its £7,549 Versys 650 and Honda offers a choice of lightweight and middleweight adventure models...
...“We’ve been researching crypto for a while and hadn’t felt that it had the seriousness,” S&P chief executive Doug Peterson said in April....
...Former student Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, chose to showcase Tangye’s drawing process in a film last year – and the V&A has 56 of his artworks – but outside of the fashion world...
...government to defend the island’s competitive edge from US and Chinese efforts to build up domestic chipmaking capabilities.Read more Chinese pharmaceutical group Hualan has inked a deal to produce the Sputnik V...
...Mr Peterson says the deal will allow S&P Global to go gunning for the next big growth opportunities....
...As the LSE awaits the EU ruling, Doug Peterson, S&P Global chief executive, said that he expects any regulatory issues thrown up by the purchase of IHS Markit to be resolved....
...Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor to Mr Trump, said while the GDP numbers appeared to validate the president’s promise of a “V-shaped recovery”, they may have come too late in the campaign to help Mr Trump...
...Its prewar, V-twin-engined machines were famed for their success in board-track racing, as the favoured mount of daredevil riders on the Wall of Death and the official bikes of many a US police department...
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...Dana Peterson, an economist at Citigroup, agreed that the “fear factor is really going to matter” as countries lift restrictions....
...“I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said. “I think it will be more like a U. The key thing is to shorten the lower part of the U . . ....
...“We have to face the hard reality we’re not going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said....
...The flying tourbillon, so-called because it looks as though it is not connected to anything, is both the V of Vuitton and the Roman numeral five on the dial. It rotates 360 degrees every minute....
...The Washington-based Peterson Institute, meanwhile, has called for a debt standstill for low and middle income countries, a topic that looks set to dominate the forthcoming (virtual) IMF and World Bank spring...
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