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...Cheers go up as the boat ignites, and again as the mast and then the dragon’s head at the prow succumb to the flames. There are, I notice, very few women in the squads....
...Even if it’s just a small flame — when people are lit by that, it can jump, it can be contagious, it can do something.”...
...“At the moment we rely on tried and tested firefighting methods using water which is effective but it’s not a golden bullet for solving these things as quickly as you possibly can,” Deadman said....
...A chef released a ball of flame that hovered for a moment above a dish before disappearing....
...“The Banquet of Cleopatra”, preparatory study for the romantic “Antony and Cleopatra” cycle of the 1740s, great work of Tiepolo’s maturity, for the ballroom of Venice’s Palazzo Labia, is a harmony of rose-tinged...
...Yet after more than two millennia in the tomb, the flame-coloured pistils had lost none of their potency. The mystery was solved — at least, that is what I thought....
...I ask him whether restaurants will ever return to what increasingly feels like the culinary golden age before the pandemic....
...Jang faked a handful of press cards, and got himself admitted to galas and awards shows, banquets and after-parties....
...During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, Hitler was so confident of victory that he printed invitations to a triumphal banquet at the Astoria....
...gathered this month to celebrate the final run of the most popular television show in history was Richard Plepler, the HBO chief who transformed the flagging cable channel into a powerhouse that ushered in a golden...
...The golden goose is a little-known bit of federal telecommunications law....
...and stitched into flame-red epaulets on jacket shoulders....
...But they are a curious group, these denizens of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and other thriving outposts of the Golden State....
...It is a tradition at the London Metal Exchange’s annual black tie dinner in the ballroom of the Grosvenor House Hotel to bet on the length of the speech....
...Heat a frying pan until very hot then fry the scallops on either side until light, golden brown. Remove and set aside in a warm place to complete cooking and rest....
...Several incidents of the cars spontaneously erupting into flames were widely reported, pushing Tata to offer its existing 70,000 Nano customers a safety upgrade....
...The ancient strains of the gu zheng, a kind of Chinese zither, float through the octagonal space, lit by natural light filtered through glass stained in a distinctively art deco tone of golden ochre....
...There is even a banquet. And it is funny how scrummy broccoli quiche can appear in prospect when there is forthcoming legislation to influence....
...We have just entered no man’s land at the Wagah border, a short drive from Amritsar, site of the glorious Golden Temple and the British massacre of Sikhs in 1919....
...Stanley Chen, head of Olympic projects for Heng Yuan Xiang, one of China’s largest textile companies, is certain that the games mark a golden opportunity for brand-building....
...Meeting and conference facilities are substantial: 45 high-tech meeting rooms, 20 conference suites and two ballrooms. There is also a full service business centre....
...This was the re-enactment of a banquet held in honour of King George VI in 1938, when 200 guests were mesmerised by the 11 different Tommy glasses at their place settings....
...Generally, though, cooking and its practitioners were merely savoury titbits in the entertainment banquet, never the main course. How things have changed....
...Its existing ones include the Rendezvous on Park Lane, 50 in St James’s and the Golden Nugget in London’s West End....
...Its ballroom spans 888 sq m, because eight is a lucky number....
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