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...If Germany wants this art back, “the law should be scrapped,” says Blau....
...From the Munich gallery Daniel Blau, for example, comes a gathering of fish hooks crafted by the people of the Pacific Islands, on sale as a collection of 150 for “less than £1m”....
...In December 2013, for example, an entity named Blau GmBH declared a short position in Blinkx, a small UK-listed internet company, with a share price that had surged by more than 200 per cent that year....
...This could be good news for Charles Saatchi, who has consigned 15 works to the sale – few will know if they underperform or fail to find buyers....
...Rosie Blau is the FT’s books editor ………………………………………………………....
...In literature, arguably the earliest writer in residence was Britain’s poet laureate: in 1668, Charles II appointed John Dryden to spin his verse for the Restoration years....
...On Monday evening, Ruth Padel, a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, stood down from the professorship she had been elected to only nine days before – the first female to fill the 300-year-old chair...
...His royal verse included “Spring Wedding” for Prince Charles’ marriage to Camilla Parker-Bowles in 2005 and a widely ridiculed rap for Prince William’s 21st birthday in 2003....
...A poet has been included in the royal retinue since Charles II appointed John Dryden in 1668....
...Remember Charles Highway, the 19-year-old protagonist of Martin Amis’ The Rachel Papers, who “prepares” his bedroom before the eponymous love interest arrives: he rejects Shakespeare for Blake, and replaces...
...The desire for cheese is clearly a base instinct but it’s also an insatiable one, according to Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist....
...Charles was a slow eater; she would nibble a few hazelnuts, or else, leaning on her elbow, would amuse herself making marks on the oilcloth with the point of her table-knife.”...
...Think of Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He has been a miser all his life, “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”...
...There, a Louis XIV Gobelins tapestry after a Charles Le Brun design leaped over its £70,000-£100,000 estimate and hit £299,200....
...She quizzed Ken Dodd on his tax problems, asked Neil Kinnock if his wife was cleverer than him, probed Charles Kennedy on his drinking and tried to draw David Cameron on his “youthful indiscretions”....
..."It is always better to have multiple indexes in the market because it gives you more validation," said Jonathan Blau, a director in global leveraged finance research....
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