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...“That moment in 1972, when David Bowie played ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops – it affected an entire generation of kids.”...
...“The Taliban have recognised that all they need to do is keep the pressure on, wait us out, and launch simultaneous offensives around the country,” says David Petraeus, a former US commander in Afghanistan...
...The kiosk’s owner, Manuel Durand, said he would be there as usual in the coming weeks. “It is important to keep a sense of normalcy,” he said....
...But for the most part Adrien Durand’s production on La Confusion flattens the Malians’ virtues into generic disco-funk, awash with wobbly synthesiser....
...Impressionism might never have proved so enduringly popular if it hadn’t been for the efforts of dealer Paul Durand-Ruel to sell European masterpieces to art-hungry Americans at the turn of the 20th century...
...A new breed of dealers, such as Paul Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard, temperamentally sympathetic to artists, acted as middlemen....
...David Zwirner, for example, funded Oscar Murillo’s project to bring Colombian workers to a chocolate factory built in his New York gallery last year; collectors looking to buy Murillo’s paintings were thwarted...
...Other exhibitors were just as happy, with Bernard Jacobson saying that everything in his solo booth of Robert Motherwell was “spoken for” (prices between $50,000 and $7m); David Zwirner reported 12 sales...
...David Cameron’s widely expected volte-face on which fighter jet Britain should buy threatens to undermine his much-vaunted defence partnership with France....
...In October 2010, David Cameron unveiled a Strategic Defence and Security Review that spelt out how Britain’s armed forces would develop over the next decade....
...As IFR’s Christopher Whittall and Helene Durand point out, clients don’t like it so much that their prime broker’s credit spreads are widening out and some have been reacting by shifting their trades elsewhere...
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...Alice’s collection includes paintings by Asher Durand, Winslow Homer, Charles Willson Peale and Marsden Hartley....
...“Go not abroad in search of material,” warned Durand, founder of the Hudson River realist school....
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