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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Three of Gunning’s buys feature in the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...The so-called “grave goods” were meant to follow their owners into the afterlife. In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...His first showing outside of his space will be in Cromwell Place, with separate exhibitions of Adam de Boer and Luey Graves (January 16-21)....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...Finally the news came that Volodymyr’s body had been found in a mass grave in the Izyum forest, among hundreds of other victims....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...As it chronicles how facts have held less sway than punchy PR, Big Oil v The World sadly seems destined to suffer the same fate....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...At the Bargello, the republic’s oldest public palace, “St George” stands firmly, legs apart, handsome, with regular features, knitted brow and grave gaze, vibrant with compressed energy — an emblem of secular...
...When Kyiv regained control, officials found mass graves of civilians, and heard accounts of the sort of atrocities now being uncovered on a larger scale in Kyiv’s suburbs....
...One year ago this week, I went to Moscow as foreign secretary to warn my Russian counterpart of the grave consequences that would result from any invasion of Ukraine....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Mr Centeno warned that the EU faced a grave situation if it failed to act decisively now....
...In the UK in 1917, King George V sent 24 congratulatory telegrams to citizens who had reached their 100th birthday. By the mid-1980s there were about 3,000 centenarians....
...Two senior Democratic lawmakers have warned the Federal Reserve and other US regulators that it would be a “grave error” to extend looser capital requirements that were introduced for US banks at the start...
...Until now, Palestinian health officials had been counting on the WHO’s Covax initiative and a possible shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to provide the bulk of its requirements....
...Mass unemployment is a grave risk. A dose of reality came within a day of his statement when retail chains announced thousands of job cuts....
...“It is the only one of its kind to be found in the UK, and one of only seven known examples in the world,” according to the V&A....
...“This is not a V-shaped recovery,” they said. In South Korea, the PMI fell from 48.7 in February to 44.2 in March, the worst in 11 years....
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