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...On July 20, 1964, Yoko Ono walked on stage at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto and dropped to her knees....
...Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1969-75 1972: In the White House barber shop with barber Milton Pitts 1974: Kissinger accepts food from China’s premier Zhou Enlai during a state banquet at the Great Hall...
...helen.thomas@ft.com Letter in response to this column: LSE reforms — a ‘loathed proxy adviser’ speaks out / From Sarah Wilson, Chief Executive, Minerva Analytics, Witham, Essex, UK...
...Perhaps the most striking premium was achieved by the desk at which Hilary Mantel wrote her Wolf Hall trilogy, which, judging by its catalogue picture, looks like any bog-standard self-assembly number in...
...Next month brings a milestone performance: her first as Wigmore Hall’s new associate artist....
...Dangling from the entrance-hall ceiling, for example, are 35,000 ribbons of polished steel plate, which clink and chime softly, like boats on a glittering Nordic sea....
...The protagonist of “Hyeonmong Park’s Hall of Dreams”, to take one phantasmagorical plot, dreams on his clients’ behalf....
...Into the breach stepped his godfather, the plantsman Bobby Jenkinson, and his American grandmother, Lady Herbert, née Helen Gammell, from a Rhode Island business dynasty....
...Most of the tours include the ornate Edwardian Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor on Brune Street, the site of a Roman cemetery on Bishopsgate and a chain of mosques, synagogues, pubs, alleyways, music halls...
...Helen Grime’s String Quartet No 2 is much more. Its three movements inhabit a volatile world, where expectant tremolos give way to agitation and uncertainty....
...Hall, who died last month, was a regular....
...In their book Changing Gear: Creating the Life You Want After A Full-On Career, Jan Hall and Jon Stokes call this next period “the third life”....
...Wall Street titans target their former universities For decades, Ivy League universities have courted the deep-pocketed financiers that once roamed their halls to feed their multibillion-dollar endowments...
...In university lecture halls, audiences whoop with approval. But can Butler persuade the public at large?...
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...Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”....
...To be clear, all these efforts are a good thing, but do not, as Helen puts it, “address the root causes of internal biases around class....
...Tracking down the real Miss Moneypenny has been, says Hubbard-Hall “like trying to find a ghost”....
...“Childhood is the creative nerve centre of what it means to be human,” says Helen Charman, director of Young V&A....
...There is lovely quiet work too from Priyanga Burford as Florence’s wise, besotted friend Helen and Hugh Ross as her long-suffering husband....
...So by all means come to this Vanity Fair account of the Murdoch succession drama for the salacious detail (Jerry Hall feeding Rupes by spoon, only to then have her marriage to him ended by email), but do...
...At the end of September, I called 39-year-old Helen Newbon....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...But step inside the Long Room — the library’s iconic main hall — and the first thing that hits you is the smell....
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