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...The opening pages of Piglet by Lottie Hazell (Doubleday £16.99) offer a vision of a bland, unexceptional middle-class existence in Oxford....
...In 1905, Charles Hellen, originally the company’s Boston branch manager, was picked to run the new English division....
...It’s the bland mainstay of Rightmove rentals; the bleak, yellowing blight of a thousand student halls — and the elegant, minimalist darling of design luminaries from Charles and Ray Eames to Jill Macnair...
...‘Charles Ray: Figure Ground’ runs until June 5, metmuseum.org...
...He bought Arnoux-Lachaux burgundies from the moment the influence of risen star Charles Lachaux was first felt at this domaine....
...“His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand/His manners were gentle, complying and bland,” the playwright Oliver Goldsmith wrote tartly....
...Judging by the curtains, bland lamps and control panel light flashing behind her, McLaughlin’s employer has maintained Walton’s penny-pinching approach to business travel....
...Still, Fonthill’s influence can be traced to such instances as the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, completed in 1860....
...Before Glasse, English cooking had a reputation for being entirely bland....
...Today, unripe pears are not even tart, just bland and turnippy....
...It disappeared 24 years ago when the politicians had become bland and the programme-makers had lost the plot....
...“Let the police do their job,” Charles Li, head of the Hong Kong stock exchange, told a meeting last week of businesspeople, some of whom are deeply opposed to the extradition law....
...Charles Mok, a former IT executive who represents the sector in Hong Kong’s partially democratic Legislative Council, says investors have been shaken by the decision....
...When she does express herself openly, it is usually in set-piece speeches or bland conversations with diplomats or subjects....
Live-fire drills send warning to Taipei over greater independence and closer US ties
...“School meals were a social and a civilising experience,” says Charles Webster, emeritus fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, whose research fields include the NHS and welfare state....
...Ben Bland is the FT’s South China correspondent. Additional reporting by Nicolle Liu Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The hospitality dynasty began when Sir Rocco’s father, Lord Charles Forte, opened a milk bar on London’s Regent Street in the 1930s....
...Additional reporting by Ben Bland in Hong Kong...
...Prof Hamilton, who teaches public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, said that delaying publication until the outcome of court cases was “effectively consigning the book to the never never”....
...It’s important to remember how much of our vision of the “perfect” family Christmas is attributable to the Victorians, perhaps most directly to Charles Dickens and his A Christmas Carol....
...But speaking at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong, Charles Li, the chief executive of the HKEX group, was sanguine on the bourse’s prospects....
...This is hard to swallow when we form our impressions of that era largely from the works of Charles Dickens, but positive narratives can take hold....
...On Sunday Charles Li, chief executive of the HKEX, likened the exchange to a traffic policeman, ensuring the traffic flows smoothly, and the SFC to a sheriff....
...The fresh and canned music is cunningly mixed but the songs themselves — crooned in English and Portuguese by Charles Damasio and Kay Elizabeth — never rise far above Eurovision....
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