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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...J’Nai Bridges looked set to become a professional basketball player when a relatively minor falling-out with her coach led her to change course completely and pursue her other big interest....
...Three other project managers — Balfour Beatty, Skanska and a joint venture between Bouygues and J Murphy & Sons — each oversee construction of different sections of the project....
...This green tweed has a wonderful texture that keeps your interest and keeps you warm. drakes.com J Nismes-Delclou armagnac, £230.50 for 500ml I love Armagnac in the winter....
...Until March 3; further information here Performance ‘Carmen’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’, Metropolitan Opera British theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s dazzling modern interpretation of Bizet’s Carmen stars...
...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...April 25 to October 20; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Royal Opera House In a new production, Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the role of Carmen in director...
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...It showcases the group of British artists that included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach with a treasure-trove of works — some well-known, some loaned from discreet private...
...But gossip at work is essential, according to Dominique J Darmon....
...Best known for his explosive, unpredictable turn as Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) and for playing the compulsive, self-destructive Axel Freed in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler...
...In his afterword, Preston explains that his novel was intended as a “grown-up” take on J Meade Falkner’s classic children’s tale Moonfleet (1898)....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
...J&J has done human challenge trials with other vaccines, including for the common cold, influenza, and RSV, a respiratory infection that mainly affects premature babies and the elderly....
...Roman Coppola, 56-year-old son of director Francis Ford Coppola, wants to change the world of film finance for investors....
...In London, the Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded...
...Noble Francis: The second half of 2023 is expected to see a rise in UK GDP as inflation eases....
...In 1898, J Corbet Anderson published a book called The Great North Wood: With a Geological, Topographical and Historical Description of Upper, West and South Norwood....
...I had it framed, along with a photograph by Stephen J Morgan, who has worked on a few projects for Turnbull & Asser....
...He adds that the course has the personal backing of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to lead the Catholic Church....
...The strategy could be particularly important for the adenovirus vector vaccines from AstraZeneca and J&J, where the genetic code of Sars-Cov-2’s spike protein is carried in an inactivated cold virus....
...Carmen, not her real name, lives with her 15-year-old daughter in a dark, tumbledown house in Guanabacoa, half an hour from Havana....
...Luxury perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, meanwhile, recommends his Aqua Universalis mist for a summer-ready spritz of bergamot, citron and orange blossom (€55)....
...In the 20 years since setting up his London studio, he has masterminded some of the city’s most magical and enduring dining scenes – J Sheekey Oyster Bar, Scott’s, Harry’s Bar, the Ivy, and the deliciously...
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