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...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Seventy years ago, newly celebrated Modernist architects descended upon Trousdale Estates, including Wallace Neff, Paul R Williams and A Quincy Jones....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...The two kings before him, Edward VIII and George V, similarly had smoking-related diseases. Come the coronation, the Queen’s antipathy to smoking echoed the beginnings of a mood of change....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Chinese companies need a back-up chip architecture, as do Nvidia’s US rivals, and Risc-V is Arm’s obvious replacement....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...“After tonight, Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,” Mr Wallace told his viewers....
...With the dealer the picture of conservative masculine elegance, in his cashmere V-neck and tie leaning on an antique chair, a touch of melancholy in his eyes, the image has curious poignancy....
...“I was hanging out with Björk and Jarvis Cocker, and with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jay Jopling, with Hussein Chalayan and the Chapman Brothers. It was an amazing time. A revolution in the arts.”...
...Now let me ask you about this daguerreotype of you with your arm around Annie Chapman, the second Ripper victim. I do not know this woman....
...Camilla Wallace, partner and head of private client group at Wedlake Bell, says your parents are right to be concerned....
...Once I was done wincing at all its many simplifications, the absence of fellow evolutionary pioneer Alfred Russel Wallace and all the rest of it, it dawned on me that this jumped-up, family-friendly puppet...
...In the 1970s, US psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V Friesen developed a taxonomy of human emotion called the Facial Action Coding System....
...Security minister Ben Wallace said police “are trying to roll up a network”....
...The Cubs, guided by its deliciously eccentric manager, Joe Maddon, are young, powerful and talented throughout the line-up and have a closing pitcher, the Cuban Aroldis Chapman, who routinely throws at 100mph...
...Between them, the V&A and the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection composed the only map of the place that I had in my head....
...(TPM) Campaign commentary It is time to panic over the polls (Jonathan Chait, NYMag) Why Trump shouldn’t be president (NYT editorial board) The minivan v the Maserati (Nicole Wallace, NYT) Clinton’s...
...(Politico) Campaign commentary A vote for Trump is a vote for China (Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy) Hillary Clinton vs the 1990s (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker) Democrats are headed off their...
...“It bothers me a lot that you want to . . . broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” he told the woman, who goes by the name of V Stiviano....
...Cartoonists parody him as a Mr Bean character or draw attention to his resemblance to Wallace, the bumbling plasticine inventor from Wallace and Gromit....
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