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...Top lot of the sale — and the last conducted by Christie’s star auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen — was St Jerome (c1653), which sold for £1.25mn (£1.6mn with fees, est £500,000-£700,000)....
...My wild swimmer vote (of course) goes to the Atlantic-dipping Sean Doyle of British Airways. None of them say they answer emails on Christmas Day. I bet they do....
...“I’ve been quite impressed and surprised that equities are holding on,” said Veronica Clark, an economist at Citigroup....
...More than 20 years ago, US sociologists Richard Lloyd and Terry Nichols Clark described cities as “entertainment machines” for the affluent childless....
...How the central bank proceeds, both in its implementation of the rules and its handling of the investigation, will determine whether the scandal inflicts long-term reputational damage, said Kathleen Clark...
...For years scientists have predicted a smooth rise in temperatures but that view is beginning to change, writes Pilita Clark....
...Letter in response to this article: America’s new frugality reflects consumer fears for the future / From Harvey Clark Greisman, Wilmington, DE, US...
...Pilita Clark Watching Boris Johnson’s conference speech last week was a reminder that the pandemic has stolen a basic ingredient from politics, as well as ordinary working life: humour....
...Pilita Clark explains why workplace humour lands better in-person — and why it is missed....
...Jon Clark’s lighting does what it can to guide the eye around the crowded stage....
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
...On Sunday, the warning from Jerome Adams came as 25,316 new coronavirus cases were confirmed, taking the total number of cases to nearly 337,000....
...Letter in response to this article: Let’s drink to that / From Dr Clark McGinn, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middx, UK...
...The triple bill closes on a high with Jerome Robbins’s 1956 comedy The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody), in which culture vultures gather to hear a Chopin piano recital (Robert Clark hamming it up at...
...David Clark is chair of the Russia Foundation. Back to beyondbrics...
...Clive Wellsteed, partner at Lane Clark & Peacock, said it was too early to say what the impact on pricing would be, but did not expect rises to be any greater than 3 per cent....
...When this production premiered last year, at the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts, Deanna Doyle was Ivy. Megan Fairchild has the role now....
...Longhi’s monograph on Piero (1928) vaulted the Tuscan artist to historical prominence; it convinced Kenneth Clark that Victorian, pre-Cézanne audiences could never have understood Piero....
...In an effort to expand his business, tattoo artist Mo Coppoletta has begun work with high-end brands such as London's Liberty and watchmaker Romain Jerome. Emma Jacobs reports....
...Doyle duly employs dead-on literary ventriloquism to illuminate the person behind his fellow Irishman’s unforgiving public persona....
...Justin Doyle conducts. Albert Herring makes me impatient for Opera North’s Britten festival in the autumn....
...There were the hardback collections of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and the slightly less daunting ones of Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, John Buchan and Dornford Yates, those thriller writers who...
...southwest France (Mauzac, Loin de l’Oeil, Muscadelle) and Sauvignon Blanc grapes make an intensely “local” and comfortable wine with a certain smoky perfume and only moderate acidity. 12% £6.95 Great Western Jérôme...
...“It’s like a gold rush,” says Richard Doyle of 3E, a renewable energy consultancy headquartered in Brussels but now operating in Cape Town along with dozens of international companies flocking to what some...
...The orchestral interludes have been turned into ballet-pantomimes – not a bad idea, but torpedoed here by generic choreography (Maxine Doyle), with swarms of kiddies pretending to be animals....
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