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...Novels are frequently in dialogue with other novels, especially successful ones, so it’s no surprise that Donna Tartt’s international phenomenon The Secret History is still inspiring writers 30 years after...
...Sophy Roberts is a regular FT travel contributor and author of ‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia’ (Black Swan)....
...To withstand the threat of Wayland, the Order must hold firm and fast to its portents: one of which is that the reappearance of swans, long extinct, will herald the falling of Alexandria, after which the...
...How about classes in Korean K-pop, Afrofusion and Bollyfunk? Or, feel yourself a prima ballerina?...
...Job moves Intel has ousted chief executive Bob Swan following sweeping changes at the semiconductor maker by activist hedge fund Third Point....
...The band’s latest single, “Black Swan”, was released last week with an accompanying art film, in which dancers from the Slovenian MN dance company perform in a desolate building....
...Fan-Delatour joins the law firm from K&L Gates, where she was also a partner. BakerHostetler has hired Timothy Swan as a partner in the law firm’s Cincinnati office....
...The last albums I downloaded were Negro Swan by Blood Orange – I love the song Dagenham Dream – and I Am Easy to Find by The National....
...The wealthy summer residents included William K Vanderbilt, who commissioned the architect Richard Morris Hunt to design Marble House, an $11m estate in the style of a French Renaissance palace....
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...We nosed aside swans and cygnets, ducks and ducklings. Red kites circled high overhead, terns swooped low over the river, and herons stood motionless on the banks....
...The Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali al-Naimi correctly identified the cause of the oil price collapse when he asked: “Is there a black swan that we don’t know about which will come by 2050 and we will have...
...Elsewhere, the relentless physicality of works such as Ronald K. Brown’s Grace showcases the company’s intensity, but does little to encourage repeat viewings....
...The Commodities Note is online commentary on the industry from the Financial Times Philip K Verleger Jr retired from the University of Calgary where he was the David Mitchell-EnCana Professor and now heads...
...While I accept that it is possible they believe Ms Karan is doing a Valentino, and throwing one mega swan song event before retiring off into that good yoga-filled night – despite the fact this has been...
...Channelling the trend to its full risqué capacity was Kim K (who else?) in a tapestry-inspired, poncho from the Balmain 2015 resort collection....
...The Indiana-born executive was appointed Burberry’s chief in July 2006 after long stints at more mass-market brands such as Liz Claiborne and Donna Karan....
...In classical ballet, women are nearly everything – the sylphs, the swans, the flowers and snowflakes – but rarely the choreographers....
...She has made coconut swans, sushi-shaped petits fours, and can bake to order....
...Later, rescued by Naoroji and employed as his assistant, Rani is told by a friend how much admiration she attracts from younger adherents, Mohandas K Gandhi “and now this brilliant young lawyer, what’s his...
...Then I cycle home through Hyde Park and stop off to look at the swans on the Serpentine lake. Two of them suddenly begin to do what looks like a beautiful dance right in front of me....
...Ducks – the mob among the Swans’ aristocracy – occasionally break the silence. At Shiplake, we seem to be the only boat left on the water....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...His return to the Philharmonic in 1992 to conduct Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was a one-off, bringing together two prima donnas for the sake of propriety and reconciliation....
...The City of London’s Swan Lane has a notable financial history: in 1997, Barclays de Zoete Wedd, the investment bank based there, was sold to Credit Suisse First Boston for the knock-down sum of £1....
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