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...‘F-111’, 1964–5, by James Rosenquist (Room 418) Rosenquist’s eruption of joyous vulgarity is tinged with an oddly bright and shiny form of pessimism....
...Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, read by Helen Laser (The Borough Press, 8hrs 38mins) This utterly diverting thriller of literary and cultural appropriation is a cautionary tale: if you witness the freak...
...The “weak link”, as Jefferies puts it, is Refinitiv’s “desktop franchise”, ie Eikon, ie the Bloomberg terminal competitor that is often invoked in the sentence “stupid f---ing Eikon”....
...In that Letterman appearance, the awkward pauses and F-bombs have a neat comic timing....
...Its meltdown was wryly analysed by the FT’s Helen Thomas and Bryce Elder. In fairness to WANdisco, fraudsters do not have a big “F” tattooed on their foreheads....
...“We had a plan A, B, C . . . and F.” She shed some of her 118 staff and furloughed others in an attempt to keep ahead of the crisis....
...US media reported Akram arrived at New York’s John F Kennedy airport about two weeks before the hostage incident....
...But underlying issues with take-off and landing slots are coming to the fore as carriers are forced to curb summer schedules, writes Helen Thomas....
...According to Greek mythology, Poseidon created Snake Island as a haven where the Trojan War hero, Achilles and Helen, could settle....
...Helen Barrett’s article “NFTs transform the art market for young novice buyers” (Special Reports, FT Wealth, September 2) on fractional ownership of physical art was published the day after the fractionalisation...
...Helen Barrett is the deputy editor of FT Wealth magazine Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Helen Barrett attended the 11-day extravaganza for the Financial Times....
...For all its macho bravado, F&F has always been a series unafraid to veer into melodrama, but this time, with returning director Justin Lin at the wheel, the frequent lurches in tone are harder to stomach...
...In Greek mythology, who was the father of Helen of Troy (above)? What is the American-English word for a courgette?...
...Defence insiders said they did not expect a major announcement on the final number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft the UK would order....
...The two companies plan to build three plants to supply batteries and vehicles, employing almost 11,000 workers to produce battery-powered versions of Ford’s popular F-series trucks....
...However, the MoD paper did not offer any clarity on future orders of F-35 Lightning jets, saying only that the RAF would increase the fleet beyond the 48 already ordered, with no mention of the 138 previously...
...One company, eXception PCB, produced plastic components used in circuit boards for the F-35 fighter jet....
...The Queen Elizabeth will host US Marine Corps F-35 jets and personnel, and be joined by a US destroyer, and is expected to conduct joint exercises with other military partners en route to East Asia....
...questioned whether the UK’s commitments are real or merely symbolic — especially since Britain does not have enough of its own fighter jets to equip the carrier, and is relying on the US Marine Corps supplying F-...
...Britain’s £6.4bn aircraft carrier programme risks being undermined by a “debilitating lack of clarity” over the availability of support ships and the number of F-35 fighter jets Britain is planning to buy...
...John F Kennedy’s words of 60 years ago ring truer than ever: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”...
...She arrives at the studio in Peckham carrying a green wellness drink and dropping the occasional F-word. “I’d fucking love to learn a language — and the piano!”...
...She entered Yale’s undergraduate art department as a painter in 1954, inspired by colour-field artists of the time such as Barnett Newman and Helen Frankenthaler, with their dramatic abstract planes of colour...
...“For many regulars, it won’t be the highly sociable start to the winter season [that it usually is],” says Helen Maixner, a Brussels-based Bostonian who bought an apartment in Gstaad nearly 50 years ago,...
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