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...The last time they had met was 1998, thinks Cox, with Elton and David. What was that like? “Nothing untoward.”...
...They picked 37 hectares of a former coffee plantation in subtropical rainforest just outside the small hill town of Xilitla, 700 metres above sea level....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...A similar landscape of streams and open fields composes the nearly 17,000-acre property (“bigger than Manhattan”, Lauren tells me with a smile), all set against the San Juan mountain range....
...For architect Juan D’Ornellas, the pleasure is as much in the process as in the results....
...They included tributes from both the current King and Queen of Spain and Juan Carlos I, the former Spanish king....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...The interiors and insouciant outfits in David Lynch’s 1990 TV series Twin Peaks inspired the show’s “slapped-on” lipstick, lumberjack-check jackets and crushed satin dresses, she said....
...“The word NGO is not as popular as it was before,” said Juan Meléndez El Salvador, director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy....
...David Souter, another HW Bush nominee, often sided with the court’s liberal wing as he neared retirement in 2009. In contrast, Thomas has always been the court’s most reliably conservative vote....
...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
...Shoji is also a fashion icon and has developed a celebrity following (David Beckham and Noma chef René Redzepi are fans of her work)....
...Among the couple’s circle of friends and contacts are ceramicist Laura de Grinyo, fashion editor Daniela Agnelli, cult landscaper Juan Masedo, novelist and eco-activist Rebecca Frayn and agriculturalist/...
...The delay caused us to miss the deadline agreed with the seller,” says David, who did not want to give his real name....
...He also says he wants to be a “champion” of Devon, the county over whose green hills Powderham Castle presides....
...Andrew Hill Will the S&P 500 finish above 4,000? Yes....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...Pacharz suggests Coon Hill, a 3,900m peak that sits right on the Eisenhower Tunnel under I-70, which is mercifully free-flowing thanks to the virus....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Hiring in a pandemic is less easy than it looks, Pilita Clark writes — but Andrew Hill says lay-offs are the worst of the bad options facing recession-hit companies....
...But support on Capitol Hill is potentially broad enough to override a presidential veto....
...London excels at heart-stopping gear-shifts in atmosphere and design: think of the bridge from Chalk Farm to Primrose Hill....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...David Hill Gallery, 345 Ladbroke Grove, W10 (davidhillgallery.net). David Zwirner, 24 Grafton St, W1 (davidzwirner.com). Dukes Bar, 35 St James’s Pl, SW1 (dukeshotel.com)....
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