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...Democrats have worried about large investors bending banks to their own purposes and also whether concentrated stakes can lead to antitrust concerns....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Capability Brown used water in his 18th-century designs to create visions of pastoral idyll, bending it to his will in the shape of the vast lakes that glittered in his pleasure gardens....
...As head of product development, Søren Hansen contracted designers who would become major names, including Børge Mogensen and Hans J Wegner....
...Final thought “Gatherings in a pandemic, particularly when full of hot, perspiring people on mind-bending drugs, are obviously a bad idea....
...Oppenheimer , about the “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, covered the stage with complex physics equations and featured a nuclear explosion....
...Japan’s professional J League followed in 1993....
...Plus hoppers, of course.49 Frith Street W1D 4SG J Sheekey Late-Victorian charm, a very famous fish pie and the finest counter in Covent Garden make for a heady combination....
...After morphing into Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne dons drag in The Danish Girl to do the full gender-bending Monty. Yes, it’s another true story....
...Manga and anime, or comics and animation, cosplay (short for “costume play”), computer games and J-pop were hugely popular abroad....
...‘How to be Both’, by Ali Smith The parallel telling of a time-bending foray into medieval art. Review by Jan Dalley ‘J’, by Howard Jacobson Two misfits meet under a shadowy future regime....
A new book reveals how the very wealthy are shaping US society more than is commonly realised
...Kevern doesn’t know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J....
...Howard Jacobson, J (Jonathan Cape) The British comic author won the Booker in 2010 with The Finkler Question....
...Stanley J Seeger was an art collector whose love of art was exceeded only by his love of collecting....
...Here almost the whole caboodle has been entrusted to German architect J Mayer H....
...… Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival, by David Pilling, Allen Lane, RRP£20/ Penguin Press, RRP$29.95 This year has seen dramatic economic reforms in Japan as a dynamic prime minister struggles...
...J Edgar Hoover’s FBI continued to persecute him with wiretaps and discredit him with gossip....
...As I was supposed to be an expert already, I tried a few “J strokes”, a rather fancy way of paddling that I recalled had never felt entirely natural. Nope, it still didn’t....
...of ‘War and Gold’ (Bloomsbury) I have enjoyed many books this year but one that stood out, partly because of its unusual nature, was Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown) by Richard J...
...The writer J.G. Ballard was obsessed with the automobile, and the way its sleek form encoded the twin desires for sex and death....
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
...At meetings for her own causes, Sheikha Mozah is partial to gender-bending jackets paired with long column skirts and copious strands of jewels over a pressed white shirt....
...This glass, developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany in conjunction with English glassmaker Arthur J....
...The same is true of plans to produce a live-action version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit....
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