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...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...A touch of drama The mood for winter coats is larger than life — think Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, Ivana Trump in her heyday or the original TV series of Dynasty. No shrinking violets here....
...In north Amsterdam, “an area known as NDSM is booming, with big developers such as Hines building large, mixed-use schemes,” says Bas Wilberts, director of Savills Netherlands....
...“We are far less optimistic about a V-shaped recovery than some people are saying. For developing countries, the worst is yet to come.”...
...Despite the recent price increases, Sam Hines, worldwide head of watches at Sotheby’s, says the market for the “rarest, most exceptional pieces” continues to rise, with supply “very limited”....
...Light can only move 30cm in a nanosecond, which means that today’s “masters of the universe” — to borrow Tom Wolfe’s phrase — are bumping up against the physical limitations imposed by the speed of light...
...In the wrong hands, it is more Colonel Sanders than Tom Wolfe. It can be an awkward statement to make....
...Plus displays on patent infringement, experimental first world war dazzle camouflage and an anechoic chamber from “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe....
...(FT) RIP Tom Wolfe The pioneer of “New Journalism” he passed away on Monday at 88....
...In 2008 I flew to Moscow for the Chelsea v Manchester United Champions League final. Anyone holding a match ticket could enter Russia without a visa, which was a first in modern history....
...Alan Wolfe, the eminent political scientist, rated her among the two or three most important Americans of the latter half of the 20th century, even though “every idea she ever had was scatterbrained, dangerous...
...Thompson Hine is now ranked as one of the top five firms in the US for client service....
...Quite distinct from the dynastic appeals of Shakespeare’s Henry V — it is easy to forget that the battle-cry “God for Harry, England and Saint George” is uttered in the play by the king himself — modern...
...Paul Sankey of Wolfe Research calls E&Ps a “hope trade”....
...The following decade, the 1970s, was famously labelled the “Me” decade by Tom Wolfe. Nonsense, said others. It was the Thatcher-Reagan years....
...Like our own museums, the Rijksmuseum came late to photography (the V&A set up its photography department in 1977; the Tate appointed its first photography curator in 2009)....
...The HPA has appointed Andrew Hine, former England team manager and founding partner of Polofix, an event management, sponsorship and player representation consultancy, to help generate sponsors and the commercialisation...
...Clients, after years of feeling obliged to commission what Tom Wolfe called the “non-bourgeois worker-housing” aesthetic of the Bauhaus, welcomed decoration back....
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...Scotland can ill afford the absence of prop Euan Murray and lock Nathan Hines but know that Murrayfield is Wales's least favourite ground....
...The Jewish Museum’s ponderously titled new exhibition, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, might more aptly have been dubbed “Greenberg v....
...And there’s Johnson v. Johnson, her story of the court battle surrounding J. Seward Johnson’s $500m will, and her novel The Straw Man....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
...There were the usual grumbles about those who had been left out of the running - among them V.S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds (Picador £16.99)....
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