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...By early February, the team was cracking the champagne and streaming live to a Seasteading Institute party in San Francisco....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...“This is my busiest time of the year and the champagne is flowing by lunchtime,” says Derly....
...Today, a huge proportion of the leading champagne houses have female chefs de cave. Women make up very nearly half of new Masters of Wine....
...Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart champagne’s chef de caveLe Monde sans Fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain A graphic novel about the finite resources of the earth....
...“What Wodehouse writes is pure word music,” the late Douglas Adams said. It takes one comic genius to recognise another....
...“They were ordering 12 or 24 bottles of the most expensive champagne and just showering themselves without even drinking.”...
...Recently I interviewed the winemakers Susanna Busi Jacobsohn and Douglas Jacobsohn about their sparkling English wine “Busi Jacobsohn”....
...The Pornstar Martini, usually served with a shot of Champagne or cava on the side, has been popularised on social media by the stars of reality TV shows like Geordie Shore and has been the UK’s favourite...
...“Restaurants had to close for indoor dining, but some served take-out fondue and raclette, with bottles of champagne brought out to sheepskin rugs on the snow,” says Levene....
...DOUGLAS A BONEPARTH: So most of my clients span the ages of 28 to 42....
...Instead, readers around the world have been invited to “celebrate the shortlist and winner from the comfort of their own homes” (BYO champagne) in a “ceremony without walls”....
...I open some champagne for a tipple and peer into the oven, hoping all is working out as it usually does. I carve, we sit....
...In Japan, the ghost of Princess Diana smashes a bottle of champagne on to the nose of a new bullet train, naming it Meisei wa Muimidesu (Fame is Meaningless). And in real life, our lives go on....
...A bearded man in a T-shirt and trainers swings from the lobby chandelier, holding a bottle of champagne suggestively close to his crotch....
...Manhattan’s luxury market — the top 10 per cent by value — recorded 241 completed sales in the three months to December, according to agency Douglas Elliman....
...Douglas Flint: audit history Douglas Flint has wasted little time sorting out the governance mess at the helm of asset manager Standard Life Aberdeen, where he started as chairman a couple of months ago...
...“With this,” the French sommelier Stéphane Gass informs us with a shrug, “it has to be champagne” (Domaine de Muzy, Blanc de Blancs)....
...Visiting US presidents such as John F Kennedy used its rooms for champagne receptions, and an inspiring JFK quote about Berlin is still etched on the wall....
...A bottle of champagne was resting in a silver ice bucket on an end table — presumably because billionaires come home each evening and toast the good life....
...And if Trump is Caesar, then John Douglas Thompson’s impassioned Cassius and Corey Stoll’s dithering Brutus presumably become a pair of old-school establishment Republicans....
...“They’re redefining the concept of luxury on Everest, but all of these things are meaningless in the mountaineering sense,” says Ed Douglas, a British climber and editor of the Alpine Journal....
...Photographs: Corbis Sport via Getty Images; Douglas Miller/Getty Images...
...“Reagan had run as an optimist and in many ways Trump ran as a pessimist,” says Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University’s Baker Institute....
...It is Corey Stoll, as Douglas’s tech-firm usurper, glinting evilly under a bald pate like a human Belisha beacon. It is the sheen and mischief of the lab sequences....
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