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...Repeatedly, the group assembles for family portraits, with an older dancer, Amy Swanson, serving as a matriarch....
...France’s PSA, which owns the Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall and Opel brands, said on Monday that it would close all its European plants, including Mulhouse in France and the UK’s Ellesmere Port....
...As financial blogger Frances Coppola pointed out in a post on Friday, the debate between the two bitcoin factions has become something more akin to a religious war than any kind of serious conversation...
...For now, Ablyazov is hoping to be allowed to remain in France....
...Investors are increasingly concerned about the political landscape in Europe, where a referendum in Italy in December and elections in France and Germany next year could yield unexpected results that dent...
...Beside it hangs Steichen’s 1924 dark portrait of Gloria Swanson, whose smouldering gaze the veil of black lace that Steichen has thrown over the lens of the camera (perhaps to protect himself?)...
...He was America’s first postmaster-general, its ambassador to France, even the president of Pennsylvania. And yet the great man had a weakness — or so he thought. His third virtue was Order....
...The Hollywood star Gloria Swanson was one client; others were the wives of architects Erno Goldfinger and Walter Gropius....
...His engagement present was his first Eiffel Tower painting, suggestively inscribed “Movement Depth France Russia”....
...Review by Judith Evans … The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, by Peter Swanson, Faber, RRP£12.99, 304 pages This may sound like a catchpenny grab for the Stieg Larsson market but this involving thriller...
...Cross to the Vaca, and you’ll find open trails through scrub typical of the chaparral, California’s version of France’s garrigue....
...Another uncle, on her French side, was the third husband of Gloria Swanson, the Hollywood diva. Another was a French Olympic gold medallist in fencing....
...One of the finest works at the Cooper-Hewitt is her 1913 collaboration with the poet Blaise Cendrars, “La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France”....
...“It’s politically easy to attack these funds, but inaccurate,” argues Joseph Swanson of Houlihan Lokey, a restructuring-focused Los Angeles investment bank....
...France’s Pompidou Centre wanted to buy it but was out-gunned by other bidders and it was hammered down to art dealer Philippe Ségalot....
...Brand development consultant Cheryl Swanson, for example, thinks next year will see a rise in “fun frugality” that will transform thrift store shopping into a scavenger hunt....
...But as Beauchamp shows, Joseph was a steelier Titan than most: ruthless, power-focused, womanising – silent star Gloria Swanson was his lover – and shrewdly swift to move on from Hollywood after making history...
...The show opens on a high point with Edward Steichen’s exquisite 1924 portrait of actress Gloria Swanson shrouded in a veil of black lace....
...One of those reportedly approached to strengthen the PM’s team is Luke Swanson, head of communications at Pearson, which owns the FT. Mr Swanson says: “We never comment about ‘people’ things.”...
...Raytheon refused to comment but speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference last year, Raytheon chief executive William Swanson sounded confident....
...In this exhibition, original prints that have only just become available for public viewing 40 years after Steichen’s death are to be shown for the first time, and include glamorous portraits of Gloria Swanson...
...Shots of George Bernard Shaw (1907), Auguste Rodin (1907) and Anatole France (1909) have extraordinary warmth and uncanny clarity of expression....
...The catwalk was turned into a street in 18th-century France....
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