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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...From there, Johnsen narrowed the list down to four fragrances, with two last-minute submissions coming from Epinette (Lesedi La Rona III and V)....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...pro-Russian sentiment in the country by banning wearing the orange-and-black ribbon of St George, a symbol celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in second world war, as well as the “Z” and “V”...
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...Price was also the owner-manager of the Gambit, London’s crowded chess café off Cannon Street, whose basement hosted the Britain v USSR radio match in 1946 where the Bletchley codebreaker Hugh Alexander...
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Thousands of commuters pass through London’s Cannon Street station every day....
...While he pulls two rosy lumps of fat out of a plastic bag to demonstrate the difference between back and flare fat, Sean Cannon, who runs nearby charcuterie business Cannon & Cannon, shows me what it becomes...
...He has been fighting a four-decade battle to reclaim his ancestral properties in a Jarndyce-v-Jarndyce tale. I remark that Kaiserbagh was built in 1855, two years before the Indian Mutiny....
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...The vessel is said to have been carrying a cargo of coins and bullion mined and smelted in Peru to Spain’s King Philip V, for his campaign in the war of Spanish succession*....
...The account of English bell-metal forged into Ottoman cannons is just one among Brotton’s many striking examples of this cultural cross-pollination....
...The first half shows Norris at his best, peppered with witty one-liners and underscored by a poignant sense of loss, the friends mourning Frankie, themselves and a childhood suddenly ended. E.V....
...The grower v merchant playing field is more level than ever and the majority of négociant businesses are every bit as motivated by quality as the small growers....
...It is almost impossible to pick out highlights from the week, but understanding the different merits of the iTunes v. the Spotify model from the perspective of the digital team at Universal Music Group,...
...Electronic Arts spent heavily promoting Battlefield 3, and games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Activision’s World of Warcraft with advertisements featuring actors including Chuck Norris....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...To contemplate the royal wedding – rather than be constantly knocked over, like a demonstrator before a water cannon, by the gush about it – is doleful....
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