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...We kick crampons between crystal ridges and turquoise slits in the surface. Azure crevasses cut down out of sight as we process into a frozen churn of ridges and bowls....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a set of our Wolseley bevelled crystal coupes as a hostess present. I am totally a coupe person rather than a flute one....
...Standing in Chamonix, Percy Shelley had looked up and imagined “a desert peopled by the storms alone”; today, a cable car brings tourists here in just 20 minutes, giving them a discombobulating taste of...
...“When people tell me . . . the stories I dream are impossible, I think of [Mary Shelley],” said the film-maker in his winning Bafta speech on Sunday....
...Like the astronomer Kepler, who studied the symmetry of snow crystals and “paid things attention up close as well as far away”, Smith has both a telescopic and a microscopic eye....
...A look into a crystal ball reveals wealth management as a woman’s world. Women make up half the US population and 53 per cent of college graduates....
...Shelley Zalis, 52, is chief executive of Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange, an innovation centre for market research....
...Crystal has a record of contributing to the archaeology of the language, too....
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