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...Anyway, here are some Morgan Stanley charts: Venture activity has undergone its “[l]argest peak to trough swing in history”, writes analyst Edward Stanley....
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...The role of Semele is nothing short of a gift and Joélle Harvey brings to it period style and a bright voice, skipping about showpiece arias such as “Myself I shall adore” with admirable precision....
...Awarded royal warrants for oysters and seafood by Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Edward VIII, it was sold to Olaf Hambro in 1942 and is still owned by the banking family....
...The world around her had been changing, including the Catholic church: Vatican II, the great wave of reform announced in 1962, had led to deep ructions between conservatives and liberals....
...This was not destined to be the case for Elizabeth II....
...“When you think of Sheffield you probably think of a [L S] Lowry painting; that harsh, cold, rugged darkness of industry,” says Mamnick’s Barnett, whose grandfather was a steel forger....
...The monogram of Queen Elizabeth II, so long gracing the regal red curtains, has been covered over in black....
...Instead, the picture of Sagittarius A* captures a bright ring of light particles beyond the black hole’s outer edge, known as the event horizon....
...At the time there was nothing like that on the market, everything else was too bright or predictable,” she says. “That was at least 20 years ago....
...Something like the George II-style marble-topped, carved and gilded console currently on offer at Edinburgh’s Georgian Antiques. This would make the most dazzling home bar....
...Consommé à l’Impérial and lamb chops à l’Orientale were on the menu, and the programme of music for that day included, with exemplary British diplomacy, a selection from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, an opera...
...In the 1980s, Maria Lassnig’s “Inside and Outside the Canvas” claims the territory for women in a bright pink, ungainly self-portrait facing an empty canvas....
...Meanwhile, a smooth voiceover talks us through the plot so far: “Previously on Edward II . . . ” For this is a serialisation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century tragedy, mischievously packaged to resemble...
...Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...We picked bold colours for the walls: arsenic green, dusty lilac and bright blue....
...See, for example, Lassco’s 19th-century Queen Anne-style painted pine door hood in the shape of a shell, or its George II sandstone door canopy....
...Available via The Conran Shop, it is made from wood and painted metal, and comes in springy hues including bright yellow and sage green....
...Or, even better: paint the whole thing bright yellow and wallpaper the interior. Happy spring saving!...
...In my studio, I have a portable Marshall Stanmore II speaker, which has brass knobs and is wrapped in brown leather....
...Edward Watson, who recently announced his new career as coach, is due to retire from dancing any minute, but his searing account of the trio from Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works made you wish he wouldn’t....
...These were major undertakings: a colossal bust of Ramesses II, nicknamed Young Memnon, was manoeuvred down the Nile and across the seas to London only through the genius of the great Giovanni Belzoni....
...And at the Grade II-listed Middleport Pottery, Burleigh celebrates its 170th anniversary this year....
...When, instead of commuting to Oxford Road on a Monday morning, I might choose, as I do sometimes, to watch French Connection II?...
...A huge and squishy L-shaped sofa is a good idea in a room intended for group enjoyment....
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