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...Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and navigator whose name is said to be from where the term America is derived, must be spinning in his grave....
...Its starting point is most dancers’ greatest fear: a grave injury, here to Otero’s back, following years of daredevil performances....
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
...With that, the Parisian macaron was born, and Desfontaines – cousin of Louis Ernest Ladurée – turned his family bakery into a culinary institution....
...His skinless man, “L’Ecorché” (1902), a debut made in coloured plaster as an anatomical teaching aid, astonished compatriots with its expressive power....
.... £15.99 MJ Wine Cellars Ch Beauregard Ducasse 2019 Graves (13.5%)Pure, lively Graves with its lightly stony character. Far from a blockbuster but not lean....
...Jim Bulling, Melbourne-based financial services partner at law firm K&L Gates, said there have been “in excess of 20 announcements” from ASIC over the past six weeks addressing enforcement actions on financial...
...For years he fought to stabilise his relationship with this complicated, wealthy Catholic, the wife of Ernest Hoschedé — his chief collector — a spendthrift bankrupted because he had bought too many Monets...
...They also shared a cool sensibility, a facility with visual and verbal quips, and a fondness for trompe-l’oeil trickery....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
...His tone this time around is likely to be more grave. Elsewhere on Thursday . . ....
...Paul Jacobs, a co-owner of the 1902-founded Ernest Wright, is currently restoring the business from the inside out....
...skilodgeengelberg.com Saint-Gervais and Les Arcs, FranceThe affable Lucas Falcoz, born and raised in Les Arc, doesn’t strike one as a “disrupter” as he chats with guests in his family’s restaurant, Les Chalets de l’...
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Where to go next: The hallowed La Rotonde, whose habitués once included Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, is a two-minute walk away....
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...The director of exploration on “the greatest wreck hunt of all time” (his words) was announcing success: after 106 years underwater, Ernest Shackleton’s ship had been found....
...Time’s rhythms — speeded up, slow- motion — play out fantastically to scores by Franco & L’OK Jazz, and Nhlanhla Mahlangu’s “Imimoya”, evoking ancestral spirits....
....£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux. Burgundy, eat your heart out!...
...Castellucci uses Mahler’s music to tell the story of the discovery and disinterral of a mass grave....
...It was also a regular haunt of Ernest Hemingway and featured in Pedro Almodóvar’s 1991 film Tacones Lejanos (High Heels)....
...Taking the fight to the Moon, the story goes full gaga Promethean, a Haribo sci-fi mash-up of The Matrix, Georges Méliès, Kubrick (poor Kubrick) and L Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth....
...Some of the names are now widely known: the former retail king Les Wexner who has stepped off the board of L Brands, the company he founded; the founder of Apollo Global Management, Leon Black, who has also...
...The local villagers were then forced to bury the bodies in a mass grave. Of course, transnational, demonstrative violence is not a purely historical phenomenon....
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
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