Hints and tips:
...Boasting the biggest glass roof in Europe, “on a sunny day, the effect is incredible”, says François Chatillon, gazing up at the 17,500sq m, barrel-vaulted glass ceiling of Paris’s preeminent pleasure dome...
...I’m vertically challenged, so I use a chapeau to extend my height when I’m not wearing heels, or when I’m wearing a silhouette that needs me to look taller....
...You have moments of crisis, I guess, and I’m not sure I’ve ever really thought I’m good at it, just that I’ve got something different to offer. Some people like what you do and some don’t....
...I’d experimented with a pair of Prada fire-engine-red shorts last summer....
...Rufus and I were wild teenagers, and this was the after-hours diner we’d come to for beer and latkes at 3am....
...Instead, it brings colourful, Philippe Starck-designed Côte d’Azur feels, from the vine-covered trellises and rattan lamps to the vintage ’50s photos adorning the walls....
...“Otherwise I’d be a monk,” he laughs. Designer Pierre Coddens agrees: “If you want to create objects and projects with soul, you need to have fun. Without fun… the objects will be meaningless.”...
...It’s something I’m really, really spoiled about, and quite insistent on having all the time....
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
...I have my bodies – my dancers – and I’m polishing them. I’m looking for things, searching for materials and colours....
...I also love Leonard Cohen, who wrote the most beautiful words for his songs. He is a true poet....
...Once again, I’m grateful to have followed the kite....
...I mean, I’m not . . . I wanna be clear that I’m not really sure, as ever, my ability to predict this stuff approaches zero....
...“I’m still trying to soak it all in.” In Lumule he was reunited with Joyce and, soon after, his mother. Says Okwera: “She [felt] like [she’d] missed out on my entire life.”...
...I’d encourage readers to ponder this over the holidays and send their thoughts, as well. Swamp Notes is now on break, and back in 2024....
...Stephen Bush I mean, I’d like to be invited back. So I don’t want to be this person who said, oh, thanks for having me on the show. By the way, I hated it. But I’m afraid I did. Yeah....
...We’d reach the stage in the economic cycle where the traditional correlation between bonds and equities would break down....
...I’m sure there’s more . . . but these are good tangible examples 👍....
...“She said: ‘I’m going to just read you what Mrs Thatcher dictated. Why [don’t] these nice people at Canary Wharf invite me?’” He took the hint, and swiftly organised a visit....
...Spaht led Thoma’s 2018 takeover of mortgage software specialist Ellie Mae for $3.7bn....
...But there’s one bit from the 60 Minutes interview we’d like to push back on....
...Well, I’m having none of it. Markets have calmed, but further drops are a chance to average down in my view. Warren Buffett agrees....
...“I’m not interested in revolution,” he says. “I’m a capitalist. It was his capitalist aptitude that attracted me, not his revolutionary history.”...
...Those payments were made by Michael Cohen, who is a former Trump lawyer....
...But also Hydra after Leonard Cohen, the Côte d’Azur of F Scott Fitzgerald and the myriad Mediterranean places that had been unspoiled repositories of legend until the moneyed landed there with their elephant...
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