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...foray by French investors into Hollywood in a year after Mediawan, founded by French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, struck a deal in December to buy Brad Pitt’s sought-after production company Plan B...
...If there is one man who knows about how to tailor a blouson, it’s Henri Zaks, proprietor of Seraphin in Paris....
...De Bolla has been buying PYCM wines from his second-ever vintage, from Colin-Morey’s UK importer A&B Vintners....
...I’ve recently rediscovered the fourth volume of Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon B Johnson. It took him a decade to write, and it’s taken me almost as long to read. Caro is an intellectual hero....
...As I write, tropical storm Henri is bearing down on me in eastern Long Island. What this looks like, in practice, is rain....
...Perhaps because it’s comparatively affordable, Normandy Isle doesn’t get much love from those in fancier districts of Miami Beach (one person described it as “a really good gated Plan B”)....
...People kept on calling her, she complained, and it was usually to do with Picasso, which was (a) none of their business and (b) very definitely history. Sadly, perhaps, for her, she was wrong....
...Henri Rousseau: ‘The Snake Charmer’c. Carlo Crivelli: ‘Annunciation with Saint Emidius’d. Goya: ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’e....
...Dodd was recently referred to in Frieze magazine as “the greatest painter of windows since Henri Matisse” and Shave describes her work as “giving a Hitchcockian twist to potentially ordinary subjects”....
...St Tropez before B.B. The French Riviera has not always been, as Somerset Maugham put it, “a sunny place for shady people”, writes George Steer....
...Murison Director, Northern Powerhouse Partnership Mark Allan CEO, St Modwen Properties plc Graham Hale Chief Executive, Go Plant Fleet Services Limited Jeremy Woolridge Chairman, B.E.Wedge Holdings...
...His 2017s were offered back in the summer, and A&B describes demand as “fierce”....
...d and the non-Opec countries by 400,000 b/d....
...But in the absence of an obvious plan B, the bank could then call on de Castries after all. Surely noblesse oblige....
...In a room at the Neues Museum in Berlin stands a bust of Queen Nefertiti, solitary and proud – a paragon of beauty from 1340 B.C....
...It was Henri Cartier-Bresson who famously associated photography with hunting....
...Burgundy specialist Jason Haynes of Flint Wines has taken the precaution of marrying a Burgundian, Aurelia Gouges of Domaine Henri Gouges of Nuits-St-Georges....
...When I think of Bristol University, I think of Henri Tajfel, who held the chair of social psychology there from 1967 to 1982....
...And there seem to be some puzzling omissions, such as François-Henri Pinault, Johann Rupert and Michael Kors....
...has been unwilling to submit samples to the village hall-style tastings favoured by the best-known French wine critics, he is not that well known in France and one of the best sources of his wine is A&B...
...It should have had a Plan B against the possibility that austerity could prove self-defeating. In any event, the malaise is as much political as economic....
...Two As and a B at A-level is hardly deemed remarkable any more – I wouldn’t have got through the application stage at Imperial.”...
...Or, if an existing customer does not take up their allocation of, say, DRC, then C&B will make space for you. And as the number of buyers goes up, so allocations, inevitably, go down....
...Where to buy £12.85 a bottle Savage Selection. £14 a bottle R&B Vintners to include delivery – minimum order 12 bottles....
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