Hints and tips:
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...Various scores have been tried (Mozart, Rossini, Johann Strauss) but Wheeldon — like Ashton, Nureyev, Matthew Hart, Alexei Ratmansky et al — was seduced by Prokofiev’s bittersweet 1945 masterpiece, splendidly...
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...and the imposing blocks of Unity and Africa Halls....
...Henry I had his treasurers unpleasantly mutilated after they “clipped the coinage” and Henry VIII, in a way that he got used to, had his father’s treasurers (Edmund Dudley et al) beheaded for their fiscal...
...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
...When Tennant and Beaton et al were having their elaborate costume parties, elegance as much as decadence was everything....
...Their gorgeous, luminous singing hit a peak with Morley’s sensuous “Et incarnatus est”....
...The event benefits the Henry Street Settlement, a New York social-services non-profit....
...For more about the QIPCO British Champions Series Hall of Fame, visit horseracinghof.com...
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered. Moscow would risk a devastating nuclear retaliatory strike by the US....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...I went to a terrible school in south London and there was a copy of this painting hanging in the assembly hall. It is so peaceful – it was very moving and inspirational for me.”...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...“It is about our commitment to New York and widening our welcome to the entire city,” says president and CEO Henry Timms....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...al) wouldn’t bring globalisation to a halt....
...There are three bedrooms and 465 sq m of land, including a terrace for al fresco entertaining....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Ben Hall Hello and welcome to the Rachman Review. I’m Ben Hall, the FT’s Europe editor standing in for Gideon Rachman....
...“aerobes” floating through Tate Modern in Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall commission “In Love with the World”....
...The latter’s altar was carved by Henry Moore, and the church was the founding place of the Samaritans mental-health charity....
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