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...Where the first four were epic, James V: Katherine is intimate. Where they were expansively staged with swords and scabbards, this is a slick and stylish chamber piece....
...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...From visit to visit I watched as the oxidised varnish was stripped away and the contours of the giant’s leg, the pearly light on David’s shoulder and the glinting hilt of the sword re-emerged....
...But by the time Luckey started Anduril — named after the “Flame of the West” sword in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — he had gone from wunderkind to pariah....
...A sword based on Charlemagne’s “Joyeuse” hangs from his left hip, while his brow is crowned with the gilded laurels of the Caesars....
...As ever, get in touch with Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with thoughts for new articles. Happy reading!...
...More than anything, Jean-Michel sensed an unnerving urgency on behalf of the authorities to close the case quickly. V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...Taking inspiration from the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to turn “swords into plowshares and [ . . . ] spears into pruning hooks”, he encouraged Mozambicans to surrender their hidden arsenal in exchange...
...With one hand, David caresses the hilt of his opponent’s sword; the other, grasping the fatal rock, rests casually on his hip....
...Webster says having a bracelet in the V&A helped his application to exhibit at the annual Design Miami fair, where he has broadened his clientele....
...A sand- and wind-blasted quotation in French and English, employing the rhetorical energy of Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, was manifestly forward-looking and filled with hope: “Men will be proud to...
...In the case of Great Britain, this runs from the stirring words in Shakespeare’s Henry V, through to the pangs of Brexit. KM Choy Singapore...
...The “V” variously stood for victory, vendetta and vaffanculo — polite translation: “Get lost!” From a piazza in Bologna, he excoriated the Italian political circus with sword-swallowing satire....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...Wren’s oak model of the Abbey with an additional tower or spire; and the saddle, shield and sword carried at the funeral of Henry V....
...Her collectors include Keith Urban, who buys pieces for his wife Nicole Kidman, while in 2006 the V&A museum asked her to make a piece inspired by their Japanese collection....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...of a Macron v Le Pen rendezvous....
...The Japanese Yakuza, who like to trace their lineage back to the samurai (Varese thinks their origins are in late-19th-century gamblers), settle scores with a sword — less because of samurai forebears, more...
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...That’s easy for her to say, but when I see her son, off Minecraft, playing with a foam sword, he is “killing” my kid or poking him in the eye with the serrated foam....
...From a market for lemons to a market for leasing As things stand, the high turnover of the rental market is a double-edged sword for auto manufacturers....
...particular, it said the decision might arm so-called patent trolls — companies whose entire business model is based on intellectual property litigation rather than on developing real products — with a “sword...
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