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...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...Parcel Service Q4, Whirlpool Q4 Wednesday Brazil: Banco Central do Brasil Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) rate-setting decision announced France: preliminary January consumer price index (CPI) inflation...
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...V says that we should be proud that we did not break, but became united. V is proud of his son, who wanted to join the army with him....
.../new-york/abcv TG Vegan Restoran V, Tallinn, Estonia Found down one of the cobbled back streets of Tallinn old town, Restoran V is a cosy, wood-panelled spot that serves Baltic soul food with an exquisite...
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...Whatever its strains, the kingdom she leaves is united still....
...So we know how to stay united, and only by staying united can we survive.”...
...All this had implications of course for an increasingly multiracial United Kingdom....
...A live, virtual, Venetian-style cook-along, with a parcel of tender onglet and aged shorthorn carpaccio couriered straight to my door, was a lockdown treat....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...I treated myself to a parcel of alpines from one of our top nurseries, willing to dispatch by post....
...“If you’re casting a van driver,” he says, “You have to think: if someone knocked on your door with a parcel, would you believe him?”...
...With dark wood furniture, deep red tablecloths and flowers on every table, Dolmama has the feel of a family dining room....
...But Dorothy dreamt of a spot where she could look at her wild flower garden in the backyard. A compromise was reached, and a floor-to-ceiling window now bisects the shelves....
...The United Nations headquarters in New York, the buildings of Brasilia, the monolithic downtown slabs of the corporate US, all were fronted by an urban space to show off the new architecture....
...Mature trees grow a few inches from the walls of his house; they even take a bite into the shape of it — one wall has a V-shaped indentation to make room for a red oak....
...Total fulfilment for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos does not mean a same-day parcel service, but delivering people to space....
...Wayne Rooney, for instance, flopped in South Africa in 2010 after being squeezed like a lemon by his club Manchester United that spring....
...Steeped in Zen and Sufi, influenced by Indian abstractionists such as V.S. Gaitonde as well as western modernists including Mondrian and Malevich, Mohamedi’s starting point was the grid....
...The quote is lifted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, a prescient graphic novel about the rise of the security state in the face of terror; typically for Banksy, it is a piece of second-hand pseudo-wisdom...
...DiDonato found worthy colleagues in Juan Diego Flórez (Giacomo V) and John Osborn (Rodrigo)....
...This week’s frenzy surrounding the release of Grand Theft Auto V is a reminder that the cute-and-cuddly Nintendo aesthetic no longer rules....
...It’s just that the nude tulle one-shouldered gown embroidered in flowers that fell in tiers to the ground seemed so much more broadly alluring in its (relative) simplicity....
...● Allow the mixture to cool, then remove and discard the muslin parcel once it has cooled completely. ● Store the brine in the fridge until needed....
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