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...In Paris, Locke invited him to see his extensive collection of African art, and Hayden marked his return to New York in 1932 with “Fétiche et Fleurs”, a still-life that gives off heat, with a nod to post-Impressionism...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...Sword swallowers, contortionists, snake charmer, fire breather, bearded lady, little people et al — welcome to the new production of Così fan tutte, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...“He’s been a winner all his life.”...
...British, Spanish, German and Danish political journalists also skew left of their countries’ centre, says the book Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective, by Erik Albaek, et al....
...Pain et des Idées (34 rue Yves Toudic, 10th). I love their little bread rolls spiked with various things such as lardons, figs, Comté . . . Best discovery of the past 12 months . . ....
...“The life they look upon is different,” Hayden says, explaining that he worked in the mills from age 14. “They don’t know what it’s like to walk out with holes in your shoes and hope it doesn’t rain.”...
...album Customs and Fashions of the Turks (created while on trade mission to Constantinople), a monumental tapestry recounting the Habsburg victory at Tunis (the most expensive work of art Emperor Charles V...
...To our knowledge, there are only a few, limited estimates of the benefits of these regulations, eg Cheshire and Sheppard (2002) and Glaeser et al (2005), both of which suggest that the welfare costs of regulation...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...I cannot, of course, presume to know the minds and emotions of Guinness et al but I do speak from experience....
...Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong, The Bodley Head, RRP£12.99, 224 pages The religious slanging match that divides the media of the western world – Dawkins v Creation, Allah v Hitchens...
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