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...David Pryce-Jones, whose biography of Hitler-loving Unity Mitford prompted a venomous anti-Weidenfeld campaign, thinks that “He needed love and he was looking for it all the time.”...
...“Tamalla” is a slightly strangulated praise song, Touré’s and Speer’s guitars duelling across the sonic spectrum....
...General Aulus (a toweringly brutish David Morrissey), thus upgraded from homicidal to deicidal maniac, now boasts Hell rather than Rome as his home address....
...Peering down from the staircase is “Secrets” (1990), Tuymans’s tiny, abbreviated portrait of Albert Speer with his eyes closed....
...David Roper, one of the founders of the UK’s Melrose Industries, announced on Thursday that he would retire at the end of May next year. His nickname is The Grinder. More here....
...The London-listed bank said it had appointed Steve Munro to head its sanctions compliance and David Clark to lead surveillance analysis of its financial crime compliance division....
...David Lodge’s novel Therapy (1995), or the 2010 film The Way, starring Martin Sheen, also centre on the Santiago route as a balm for modern-day exhaustion and alienation....
...It’s clear that I am in the tradition of German art, Holbein, Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich, but national character is no longer so present....
...BP: There again, you had Speer, he was Hitler’s great architect. He knew what he was doing. His buildings were classically authentic. It wasn’t kitsch....
...Yet while British modernist painters such as David Bomberg were enthralled by the revolutionary sets and costumes by Picasso and Matisse, Knight was seduced by the exotic charade of ballet itself....
...David Speer, chief executive, said the decorative surfaces segment had a variety of premium brands and was a valuable asset....
...Email questions to david.tang@ft.com...
...David Speer, chief executive of Illinois Tool Works, a US conglomerate that owns hundreds of suppliers to industrial manufacturers, said the result is that the recession has “led to a more rational approach...
...However, David Speer, chief executive of Illinois Tool Works, a large diversified manufacturer widely seen as a bellwether for the sector, noted that most big industrial companies have spread their manufacturing...
...David Speer, the chief executive of Illinois Tool Works, another large diversified US manufacturer, said in a recent analyst call: “Some of the deals that have started to emerge . . ....
...David Speer, chairman and chief executive of ITW, said: “It’s a full price, which we’re offering because it will help us compete in the global food equipment market.”...
...B Speer, chairman and chief executive officer of ITW....
...I could actually see Albert Speer’s handiwork from the section of the modern stadium in which I was sitting. Four years ago, I visited Hiroshima. In four years’ time, Robben Island?...
...Most historians accept Speer’s story, though some such as architectural historian Wolfgang Schache still refute it....
...A commercial gallery that will be open until the end of July is the Galerie du Passage, where an exhibition of work by the Australian photographer Vee Speers runs from June 16 to July 30....
...He ordered architect Albert Speer to create monumental Nazi structures that would look as good thousands of years after they were destroyed; as good as Roman ruins did....
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