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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Charlie McCormick is a gardener based in West Dorset and Scotland...
...The book chronicles the doomed love affair between Kemal, an affluent Istanbul businessman, and Füsun, a distant cousin, during and after which he buys, collects and steals objects to memorialise her and...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...His cousin sprites, joyous little “Spiritelli”, are bizarre fusions, derived from the pagan putto, adapted as celebratory figures associated with Christian baptism....
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...Her life was indeed to be long, and much of it she spent with Philip, the distant cousin to whom she became officially engaged at 21 that same year in 1947....
...Florian Thaler, OilX’s chief executive, said these refiners “have put in a real and proper V-shaped recovery . . . from the lows seen in August”....
...Casting Lucy McCormick as Cathy is a masterstroke....
Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple is set to start today
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...Childers, Barton’s first cousin, was a character fiction could not have outdone....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...It gave the global oil market hope that a V-shaped demand recovery was under way. But OilX’s data suggest the teapots’ appetite has waned....
...At a cousin’s house we sat in a shady garden, swathed in blankets, clasping mugs of tea, as if we were indeed polar explorers....
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...Its editors are Derek Brower and Myles McCormick, with contributions from David Sheppard, Anjli Raval, Leslie Hook and Nathalie Thomas in London, and Gregory Meyer in New York....
...Only a small minority of respondents said they expected a rapid recovery, with just 15 per cent of fund managers saying they expect a V-shaped rebound....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...But The Vast of Night feels less like a horror movie than a fearless cousin to immersive theatre, seeming not to play out in front of us as much as pull us into it....
...Gauging further upside for the euro is very much a story at the moment and Mark McCormick at TD Securities believes there is “plenty of euro runway in the quarters ahead” — less so immediately — and he cautions...
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