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...“He gets enormous pleasure out of gardening. He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...She sent a fusillade of emails to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, urging that the president not concede his defeat in the election....
...And one of the people we spoke with for the book said, you know, Mark Meadows was like the matador of the Trump White House in his final days, just waving the red flag and shooing into the Oval Office any...
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...Mr Trump is also concerned that the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the American south and west will provide a fresh drag on the economy and prevent the emergence of the V-shaped recovery that he had...
...If only the official totals of local cases of Covid were reliable: having missed it on London buses in March, it would be ironic to catch it from a metal cup of mare’s milk in a yurt in a meadow of edelweiss...
...The Buda Hills that surround the city are only about a 40-minute drive from the centre and they’re a mixture of quite dense woods and meadows – an incredible place to clear the head....
...A pet hate of mine is the hotel lobby look. I love an abundance of flowers, not floral “installations”. Think of the Hotel George V in Paris — all those glossy black vessels and tight bouquets....
...He had been struck by its gently sloped meadows, views of Mont Blanc and easy access from Geneva....
...“Modern Meadow’s lab-grown leather and Bolt Thread’s artificial spider silk are good indications of this....
...Designers at the company Modern Meadow are using biology to create leather-like goods without using animal skin. They edit the DNA of yeast in a lab so it makes the protein collagen when it ferments....
...There was always something mysterious about how he got where he was going — and now he was running over me, as if I were a European neophyte unaccustomed to the hard courts at Flushing Meadows....
...There are coins from the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and earlier, to George V, arranged on squares of red velvet; there is a beautiful lid handle shaped like a dove; and a delicate gold ring, woven with snake...
...There will be a large flap of muscle covering the shoulder blade (the V-shaped flat bone that is the first articulation of the shoulder)....
...The glistening rainbow and smouldering skies of Ruisdael’s “The Jewish Cemetery”, borrowed from Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie, suggested elements for “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows”....
...It details the transformation of the Welsh countryside from a once richly coloured tapestry of wildflower meadows to one of blanket uniformity, the result of large-scale cropping and grazing....
...About a third of the 2000 sq ft floating home is taken up by the train car which was sliced in half and set in a ‘V’ shape on top of a concrete base....
...Hay-smoked mackerel 15g coriander seeds 2g black peppercorns 35g white caster sugar 125g sea salt flakes 25g lemon zest 25g lime zest 3 whole mackerel, filleted and v-boned 500g meadow-fresh hay...
...Among the highlights in the Perugia show is the Medici Madonna (c1485-90), a round panel depicting the Madonna and Child in a meadow oblivious to four naked men flaunting their athletic physiques in the...
...The meadows are lush with wild flowers and streams run fresh from hillside springs....
...Clive James is author of ‘The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V’ (Picador)...
...Turn right along the busy road, then right again into Park Lane, up a gravel track and through a V-shaped stile....
...But pale green Meadow or vibrant Kingfisher blue will cost twice as much....
...MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul Picador £16.99, 304 pages I found V.S. Naipaul by process of elimination....
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