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...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...Biden is not set to meet King Charles III, the British monarch, during his short visit to the UK; the president’s wife Jill will represent him at next month’s coronation....
...The haul crossed the $1bn mark around halfway through the event with the sale of Alberto Giacometti’s bronze nude standing female figure “Femme de Venise III” for $25mn....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Married to a then more acknowledged artist, John Hultberg, and latterly reclusive, Drexler’s relative obscurity was the same old story, says Sukanya Rajaratnam, partner at Mnuchin....
...Meanwhile, set in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, John Wonnacott’s fluent, loosely painted 12-footer “The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait” (2000), also looks back, to John Lavery’s 1913 royal...
...“These are times when the strong can get stronger,” Nike chief executive John Donahoe said in September, as he celebrated the digital investments and robust brand that helped the sportswear group to increase...
...Kneller’s equestrian portraits of British heroes “William III on Horseback” and “John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose...
...John Jacob Astor III’s house became a nexus for New York society and on his death in 1890, the site was passed to his son William Waldorf Astor (who later in England became a peer and bought Cliveden and...
...John Van Reenen: Rise in unemployment to about 6 per cent....
...range from a loose, bold study of drapery by Sir Peter Lely to a highly finished gouache on vellum, a meticulous reduced version of Poussin’s “Hercules Between Virtue and Pleasure”, made by Bernard Lens III...
...John Van Reenen, professor, MIT economics department and Sloan management school It has not and it will not....
...welcomed in the 1940s-50s — de Kooning’s aggressive smash-up of figuration, the toothy harridan “Woman 1”; Barnett Newman’s two-metre blood-red zip painting referencing sacrifice and atonement “Onement III...
...“Against the marble, it looks incredible,” says curator Lawrence Van Hagen....
...“It is clear John will do anything not to raise equity and at the same time build capital as fast as possible towards a Basel III 12 per cent [common equity tier one capital ratio], rather than its old target...
...the original libretto, Battistelli subsequently opted for a more allegorical approach, enlisting the author Ian Burton and stage director Robert Carsen, both collaborators on Battistelli’s 2005 Richard III...
...The sale in April at Christie’s of a late 16th-century portrait of Richard III once owned by Lord Byron for £16,250 was a good example....
...Rocco and his Brothers, Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers and Scenes From a Marriage, and works by John Cassavetes and Michelangelo Antonioni....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
..., Seth Lakeman) and old reliables (Van Morrison)....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Milibands: the modern Romulus and Remus / From John O’Byrne...
...But the story is amplified and deepened by diverse displays of carpets, masks, weapons, scientific instruments, Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s album Customs and Fashions of the Turks (created while on trade mission...
...The uncredited sets and John Conklin’s costumes, used in earlier seasons, have had their day and then some....
...(iii) Brexit (see below)."...
...John van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics In the absence of an unexpected major shock (eg from eurozone or China) it should be able to grow at least...
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