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...In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...A favourite near-fixture is the “faux gras”, a lentil-based terrine without the ethical shortcomings of its duck-liver equivalent. gauthiersoho.co.uk Maxine Kelly Roots by Patina Maldives, Fari Islands...
...WhatsApp: To FionaL: Yes I’m sorry Christopher had to duck out. I’m not supposed to say but he had — well let’s just say — a v high level meeting....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...But it turned out that politics have prevailed and now he is a lame duck.”...
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...If he becomes president, Mr Biden will enter office as a lame duck. This has some immediate implications for public health....
...The laser-cut plywood stools are neat too, their V-shaped legs an echo of the stitching in the bellows, a detail picked up again in the delicately pierced patterns of the window shutters....
...Seven Angry and hungry Pavement Almost They’re all wrongly named (glow-worms aren’t worms but beetles, shooting stars are comets, Bombay duck is fish, koala bears aren’t bears but marsupials) Round Four...
...True to the genre, the crowd is older than at the 930 club on V Street or at the new-ish Anthem. A city of careerist neuroses takes on a stiller aspect....
...He sleeps in a Savile Row dress shirt and V-neck sweater. He shaves daily, has pedicures monthly and maintains the immaculate haircut of a navy admiral....
...We emerge from the backstage spaces into the kitchen, built in a V-shape, pushing out into the dining area like the prow of a ship....
...In CEO Patrick Coveney, GNC has a strategic thinker and leader who won't duck the requisite tough decisions. New CFO Emma Hynes is a returning experienced hand and a source of fresh energy....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...Museums are a side hustle: he curated an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield in 2017, and last month was named a trustee of the board of the V&A. “A shop is a public space. Anyone can come in....
...Anyway, the sad dumpy birds that waddle about London parks hoping the ducks will play with them are, here in Florida, elegant wild creatures making the watery glades their own....
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...I could dodge incoming missiles in a snowball fight and duck low trees as I sped downhill on a snowboard. Unfortunately, there are few of these titles so far, and even fewer bear revisiting....
...Just occasionally you will feel an icy blast of stern morality: I, at least, felt a little alarmed on reaching the concluding pages of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, when the fox is seen...
...Arriving in time for the national anthem I duck a sign — “Defund Planned Parenthood”. A vendor is selling MAGA hats. Everyone already has hats. The nuns are wearing wimples....
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...Being pushed into the position of a “lame duck” Chairman, my desire was to create an institutional framework for effective future governance of the group....
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