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...One of the major things that came into the home was Tupperware food containers, made of polythene, which was developed for radar.”...
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...Some museums, including the Barber Museum, Birmingham Art Gallery and Watts Gallery, have now approached Procter to run tours officially....
...A sand- and wind-blasted quotation in French and English, employing the rhetorical energy of Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, was manifestly forward-looking and filled with hope: “Men will be proud to...
...Sales of frozen food and pet food are up but deodorant is becoming optional rather than a necessity....
...Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission (£19.99, Tate Publishing)New York-based artist Kara Walker’s 13m-high fountain, Fons Americanus, a comment on suppressed histories running between continents and standing...
...I buy own-label marmalade in Harrods Food Hall, which is a place of fascinating theatre....
...UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s struggle to find the right response to the poison attack on a former double agent in the English cathedral city of Salisbury highlights an age old struggle,writes Tony Barber...
...(USA Today) Food for thought Asia’s alarming debt mountain Emerging Asia has witnessed the world’s sharpest increases in corporate and household debt since the global financial crisis....
...…………………………………………………………………………………… Christine Spolar, investigations editor, picks: • Hanergy: a strange trading story by Miles Johnson and Gavin Jackson• Cyber insecurity: vital US agencies at risk by Kara...
...Lionel Barber and Janan Ganesh discuss why the Tories have abandoned their austerity mantra. (FT)...
...(FT) US v China: the new cold war? David Pilling looks at the simmering tensions between the two superpowers....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Amit Kara, UBS: Economic growth will likely moderate, but we see healthy economic growth next year as well....
...to Pollan but packages the information in an even more accessible way, challenging the organic movement, locavores, food miles and seemingly every other sacred cow of the modern food world....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As last year, the V&A is acting as a central hub for the London Design Festival, with exhibitions, talks, a special iPod tour and even an interactive tapestry....
...You’re more likely to be on to something if you’re reading V.S. Pritchett, Saul Bellow … But any young squirt, you’re not going to read except out of a kind of sociological curiosity.”...
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