Hints and tips:
...Duncan is a joy in the role, gliding through the action and scattering perfectly timed one-liners in her wake like pins....
...A former teen tennis star, Duncan is injured and becomes a rich, successful coach instead....
...Cary Welch snapped many up, and, like Falk, helped promote their popularity in Europe and America via scholarly exhibitions at the V&A or the Met – which partly explains why the first two parts of the Cary...
...overcoats were a staple style influence in my teenage years, thanks to characters such as Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Denzel Washington in American Gangster and Michael Caine in the original Get Carter...
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...Brzezinski, whose late father was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, is another of Biden’s Polish ties....
...“It’s the recurring nature of their outflows compared with other fund groups,” said Stuart Duncan, analyst at Peel Hunt....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...Iain Carter, a partner at the advisory company Hanbury Strategy who ran the ground operation for her bid, is among those likely to join her inner team....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...Jimmy Carter, one example of that; George HW Bush — maybe not divisive, but not successful. It was seen in that in terms of domestic politics....
...Duncan, the deputy defence secretary, giving him full exposure to the topmost reaches of strategic policymaking....
...He will be succeeded by head of strategy Duncan Wanblad....
...As early as January 23, Carter Mecher, an impressive US epidemiologist, said “we are not going to be able to outrun it” and advocated targeted layered containment....
...Witnessing the old ledgers seemingly at random, letting the history and glamour just spill out, I felt like Howard Carter (or do I mean Howard Cartier?)...
...For now, investor interest in the London office market is strong, according to Robbie Duncan, an analyst at Numis Securities....
...I don’t know how my parents voted in 1980; I was nine and sad Jimmy Carter lost because I liked his big teeth....
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