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...April 25 to October 20; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Royal Opera House In a new production, Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the role of Carmen in director...
...Photographer’s assistants, Ivano Pagnussat, Charlotte Ellis and Rob Palmer. Stylist’s assistant, Ady Huq. Hair assistant, Yuri Kato. Set design assistant, Rufus Wilkinson....
...Rick Owens wears them almost better than anyone and his are a sublime shape. But I don’t have his body....
...Peter Davidson’s haunting book, The Last of the Light (2015), offered a marvellously imaginative study of how artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Samuel Palmer, have made use of twilight....
...— Rick Soloway, New York, New York “With all respect to Luke Gromen (who has nailed the financial big picture) the matter of degree is critical to the financial markets....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...For FT contributor Lou Stoppard, London-based duo Palmer Harding strike the perfect trans-seasonal note....
...Educating the president: Jim Mattis, in his role as secretary of defence in the Trump administration, is the one reason the rest of us can sleep at night, writes Edward Luce....
...“Criminals treat their ill-gotten gains like a share portfolio of assets,” says Antonio Suarez-Martinez, a partner at Edwards Wildman Palmer, the law firm. “They diversify.”...
.../ From Mr Tim Palmer...
...Eternal goth Gareth Pugh looked to Edward Scissorhands with pale-faced models and structured dresses edged with gold-embroidered branches (£2,330)....
...Only Rick Santorum would fit the type who mowed your lawns and dropped off pecan pies. He may preach a bit and wear off-putting V-necked sleeveless sweaters....
...Lord Skidelsky,Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, UK Marcus Miller,Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, UK David Blanchflower,Bruce V....
...By contrast, others – Anthony Eden, Edward Heath, John Major and Gordon Brown – were rotten at these relations....
...Among the names quoted as influences in the documentary are Edward Lear, TS Eliot, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thelonious Monk, Benjamin Britten, Lewis Carroll and Bonanza....
...RBI governor Y.V. Reddy’s observation that “we needed an economist” hardly illuminates: they are not in short supply at the bank’s 25-storey tower in Mumbai....
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