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...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...With its intricate etching of animals and bronze detail, it is the work of Austrian/German painter-cum-designer Ludwig Jungnickel and was produced for the venerable Bohemian glass company J & L Lobmeyr....
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
...Incidental intelligence: L’Amour de Loin is the second opera by a woman to be performed by the Met. The first, Ethel M. Smyth’s Der Wald, turned up briefly in 1903. To December 29, metopera.org...
...In 1903, the British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth had two performances of her opera Der Wald. “This little woman writes music with a masculine hand,” judged one contemporary critic....
...Her promotion to the top job at GSK will bring the number of female chief executives in the FTSE 100 to seven, joining Alison Cooper at Imperial Brands, Moya Greene at Royal Mail, Carolyn McCall at EasyJet...
...All best, L. Predictive power of film PS Santa, Henry Gatewood, banker in the 1939 film classic Stagecoach, wished the US president was a businessman....
...In November 2014 L&G’s Mr Wilson said that the euro had been a “disastrous straitjacket”, and that there was little evidence that the single market had benefited UK business....
...A gruff ticket seller at L’As du Fallafel, where long queues normally form outside, said business was down at least 30 per cent since last week....
...Have some mint tea and a corne de gazelle by the fountain, after a walk in the Jardin des Plantes nearby. 2bis Place du Puits de l’Ermite, 5th arr Le P’tit Fernand This restaurant is an institution and...
...enthusiasts – Gokhale and Dalrymple with Roy at Jaipur, while the Arts Summit emerged from an idea by Neha Kirpal, a young marketing and conference organiser and is backed by Sunil Gautam who runs Hanmer MS&L...
...New and established names include Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anthony McCall, Hans op de Beeck, Isak Berbic and Felice Varini....
...In his 1973 book, Awakenings, Sacks himself described victims of a sleeping sickness springing to life through music (and the then-new drug L-Dopa)....
...People who buy L’Oreal buy a little bit of Paris, and with Maybelline [L’Oreal’s US cosmetic brand], you are buying the New York spirit.”...
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