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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....
...Chamberlain and Rayner started their textile investigations when they came across a December 1960 US edition of Glamour magazine in the V&A library in London, and an article about a dress collection designed...
...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....
...Austen Chamberlain, leader of the house, emphatically opposed any autonomy for Ireland....
...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....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Deutsche Bank’s satellite-powered shipping tracker indicates that Chinese economic activity has now stopped contracting, and some economists are predicting a V-shaped recovery....
...Understanding what’s at stake requires understanding the Supreme Court’s central role in the culture wars that have long driven American politics, arguably beginning with the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that...
...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...
...They launched with The Henrys, a 9-hour marathon of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V, which mixed modern, medieval and Edwardian costumes....
...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...
...Hardly, surprising, then, that Remain v Leave is also about Dave v Boris....
...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....
...Shakespeare would later praise Essex directly as “the General of our gracious Empress” in Henry V, enshrining his connection with these English kings....
...Finding the pinbones (the tiny bones radiating from the spine at right angles in the upper part of the body), cut down on either side of them in a V-shaped channel and lift them out....
...In 1997 a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe, championed by US-born actor Sam Wanamaker, opened with a production of Henry V....
...In the opening episode, about as flat as television gets, Sir Hallam (Ed Stoppard) was trying to stop Chamberlain and Lord Halifax from appeasing Hitler....
...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?...
...triumphant procession, they were following in the footsteps of millions more who once poured on to the streets to celebrate Victory in Europe or the relief of Mafeking, or to mourn the deaths of George V...
...Although Hector Sants, chief executive, agreed to stay on through the reorganisation, his deputies Sally Dewar and Jon Pain, and Mark Norris, the chief operating officer, have announced plans to leave....
...Apparently the PM’s travel concessions v generous. Ooh, look the new girl off EastEnders.”...
...Most in the markets believe the global economic recovery will be anything but V-shaped – although such a scenario actually looks increasingly likely, says Barry Norris, partner at Argonaut Capital....
...The war began in Britain with an announcement by the prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, on the morning of September 3 1939....
...As Marc Chamberlain of Morgan Stanley explains: “Due to the current economic uncertainty, corporate bond spreads have widened and volatility has increased....
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