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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The book chronicles the doomed love affair between Kemal, an affluent Istanbul businessman, and Füsun, a distant cousin, during and after which he buys, collects and steals objects to memorialise her and...
...His cousin sprites, joyous little “Spiritelli”, are bizarre fusions, derived from the pagan putto, adapted as celebratory figures associated with Christian baptism....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Her life was indeed to be long, and much of it she spent with Philip, the distant cousin to whom she became officially engaged at 21 that same year in 1947....
...“Games reflect the culture in which they exist,” says Nic Ricketts, curator of board games at the Strong National Museum of Play in upstate New York....
...Childers, Barton’s first cousin, was a character fiction could not have outdone....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...At a cousin’s house we sat in a shady garden, swathed in blankets, clasping mugs of tea, as if we were indeed polar explorers....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...I also manage and direct music videos with my cousin, the artist Dirty Blonde....
...Even if Asim does not breed, his behaviour in London Zoo’s Tiger Territory may yet have lessons for those trying to save his remaining wild cousins in Indonesia....
...The 15-largest US banks have set aside $76bn to cover projected bad debts and their 32-biggest European cousins €56bn, Citigroup data shows....
...Thanks Letter in response to this newsletter: We need to adapt past experience to the present situation / From Dr Aleksandr V Gevorkyan, St John’s University, New York, NY, US...
...He joined Christie’s in 2007 after leaving the V&A where he was first a research fellow, moving up to senior curator....
...The GSE paper looked like American cousins to yellowing Russian Imperial bonds....
...“Banner for Willie J.”, by the Chicago-born Charles White, is an oil portrait of the artist’s cousin, an innocent bystander killed during a robbery at a bar....
...the government buildings in Chandigarh, the Indian city created by Jeanneret’s cousin Le Corbusier at the behest of Jawaharlal Nehru....
...about ‘Qataxit’ Washington may bluster but cannot stifle the Chinese economy Even trying to do so risks strengthening the most anti-American elements in Beijing Lex: UK property websites — Right move v...
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...He was a cousin of Elizabeth I and Lord High Treasurer appointed by the king....
...That political spirit finds a distant but worthy cousin in the work of the German Andrea Luka Zimmerman, whose installation of films, quilting and posters, by herself and other artists and activists, takes...
...So when the V&A opens its brilliant, overdue show based on Quant treasures in their collection, I won’t be budgeting much time for the stuff of the 1970s....
...He has even embraced the most modern of fashion trends, the logo – which this season stars as 1970s-style hardware on thick leather belts (£630) and smart bags (V-Ring, £2,100)....
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