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...The UK will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne with a public holiday in a couple of weeks....
...At Harewood, she is exhibiting a hairdryer reconfigured with ceramic, rather than plastic, casing, and a vacuum cleaner made with a wicker basket base....
...Bulging like a hernia from the flank of the Lea Navigation waterway, the strategically tailored acres of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park flipped the jaded concept of sportswashing....
...“Fire Leap” covers a sung round from the soundtrack to The Wicker Man, the 1973 horror film about sinister goings-on among seemingly bucolic folkies on a Hebridean island....
...Layered with leather and wicker, and with paintings stacked casually on the floor, the decor has a palpable global influence....
...Even in the height of summer, the idea of a plush wicker basket packed with figs, panettone, Stilton, walnuts and Ibérico ham brings a glow of contentment....
...He takes Brideshead as his inspiration and adds a dash of wicker enhanced by candelabra. It’s all tray chic....
...The Christmas gifts — £25 wicker trays of Fox’s cookies — were apparently designed as a goodwill gesture and not the attempted bribes the ungrateful committee implied....
...Cire Trudon, 248 Elizabeth Street, 10012 (+212-203 0453; trudon.com). Feit, 2 Prince Street, 10012 (+212-226 8600; au.feitdirect.com)....
...Any authentic picnicker like Ratty knows that a wicker basket is essential luggage....
...I never wear that colour but it was so beautiful I had to have it. prada.com The best gift I’ve given recently was a wicker Basket chair by Nanna Ditzel, which I bought from Sigmar on the King’s Road....
...In Mississippi, Roger Wicker, the Republican, defeated Ronnie Musgrove, the former Democratic governor, to take the seat vacated by Trent Lott, the former Senate majority leader....
...Ronnie Musgrove, the former Democratic governor of Mississippi, could beat Roger Wicker if there was an unprecedented turnout among African-American voters....
...Piled into a wicker basket just below the big shop window of the English Grocer store in Buntingford are a few dozen of George’s apples – complete with a photograph of the 4½-year-old George – selling for...
...In Elizabeth Goudge’s The Little White Horse (1946), Maria’s first breakfast at Moonacre reassures the reader that although she is a fluttery, ethereal child by nature, she is very corporeal when it comes...
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