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...There were some longer dresses: strapless or with a deep V neckline, held together by delicate lace....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...Gone is McVicar’s twist on Verdi’s deus-ex-machina ending: rather than having the ghost of emperor Charles V spirit Don Carlo away from the Inquisitor’s vengeance, as written, McVicar had earlier resurrected...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...They included tributes from both the current King and Queen of Spain and Juan Carlos I, the former Spanish king....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...One was grateful for McVicar’s straightforward direction, and in an alternative to Verdi’s much criticised ending, wherein the ghost of emperor Charles V spirits away Don Carlos from the Grand Inquisitor...
...Add to that the 36-year-old US composer Carlos Simon, and Elena Urioste on violin....
...Northern counties such as Las Hurdes, the subject of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Land Without Bread, and luscious La Vera, site of the Emperor Carlos V’s monastery-retirement home at Yuste, are best enjoyed...
...Also, Federal Reserve vice-chair Michael Barr will discuss how to make the financial system safer and fairer at the Brookings Institution, his first public comments since taking the role....
...Carlos Alcaraz is aged 19, ranked in the top 10, and beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic on successive days in May....
...Shaping Space: Architectural Models Revealed, a small and lovely show at London’s Building Centre (in conjunction with the V&A) illustrates the range of media and approaches, and intimates that this might...
...I mean, a couple of months ago when the Supreme Court made its decision essentially overturning Roe v Wade on abortion, there was a sense that maybe the Democrats could use that or that people would come...
...He is currently at 2865, with an official peak of 2882 and an unofficial daily high of 2889. 2451 Carlos Palermo v Predrag Todorcevic, Novi Sad 2017. Black to move and win....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...Nick Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum and former overlord of Condé Nast Britain, publisher of House & Garden and The World of Interiors, thinks that working from home and Zoom have made the Instagram generation...
...John V BaldwinCernobbio, Italy...
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...As these Russian collectors often travel to Monaco, Hu now plans to expand her European clientele to their friends — by setting up a salon in the principality’s fabled Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo this year...
...Dramatic images showed the train suspended at a 45-degree angle, snapped into a V-shape, and suspended above a mountain of rubble on the road....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...“The biggest bottleneck today, for access to vaccines, is the material limits of production capacity,” Carlos Alberto de Franco França told a Senate committee....
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...Job moves Carlos Brito, who transformed a Brazilian regional brewer into the world’s largest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, is to step down as chief executive after 15 years....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
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