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...This can be a risk — slapstick can carry a whiff of misogyny — but the writing is just the right blend of klutzy virtuosity in the tradition of Ashton’s Alain in La fille mal gardée or the drunk scene in Kenneth...
...Until February 16; further information and tickets here ‘Manon’, Royal Opera House The Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s gorgeous 1974 classic, with a score drawn from across Massenet’s work...
...Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla has likened this aspect of the reforms to “negotiating with a gun to your head”....
...Unfortunately, the tour’s presenter, Albert Sarfati Productions, could have advertised it more widely: quite a few audience members seemed unaware of it, although the emotional bows probably clued them in...
...Marks’s speech is like his prose: simple, conversational and peppered with quotes, adages and anecdotes by everyone from Albert Einstein and John Kenneth Galbraith to the Chinese general Sun Tzu and American...
...In truth, though, Crisp’s amazing scholarship was very largely his own: he could tell you which shelf at the Victoria and Albert Museum to visit when researching Renaissance dance....
...UK premiere of No Time To Die The new James Bond film will premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In How to Spend it, Jessica Beresford details how to dress like Bond....
...Particularly poignant is Tracy Tynan’s account of an imaginary visit by her theatre-critic father Kenneth Tynan....
...Beside a bend in a waterway, flowing across the marshy flatlands outside Venice, sits a villa that British art historian Kenneth Clark called “the most beautiful home in the world”....
...Albert Bourla, chief executive of Pfizer, who took over from Ian Read at the start of the year, said the company’s oncology drugs such as Ibrance and Xtandi were selling well in China....
...“We believe that we’ve only scratched the surface in terms of the opportunity in key markets such as China,” Merck’s chief executive Kenneth Frazier said on its earnings call....
...Kenneth Frazier, chief executive of Merck, said prices would come down if the system was changed so that no one company faced a disadvantage....
...The workhorse museums of Albertopolis — the Victoria and Albert, the Science Museum and the rest — have to work harder than most to realise new aesthetic and artistic opportunities....
...Meanwhile, here’s this week’s reading list: Kenneth Rogoff explains why cheap labour — China’s major advantage in the last several decades — may be a hindrance in the age of AI....
...A farsighted headmaster, Kenneth Thompson, gave every new boy at his school, Broughton Hall in Staffordshire, a square yard of mud and a packet of Virginia stock seeds....
...He quotes the late cultural commentator Kenneth Hudson, who suggested that the museums that survive the 21st century will have either charm or chairs....
...And Albert Einstein said: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” But don’t trust them, they’re experts....
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...The men that month also purchased a £3.7m flat at 83-86 Prince Albert Road for the oil minister....
...At Sotheby’s New York a recent archive of Kenneth Paul Block fashion illustrations, estimated to fetch $3,000-$5,000, sold for $16,250....
...Carlos Acosta’s never-ending goodbye to the classical ballet stage ends with five nights at the Royal Albert Hall....
...Kenneth Grahame’s water vole is one of literature’s most informed connoisseurs of outdoor dining....
...Aleš Briscein cajoled fervently as Albert Gregor. Gustáv Beláček made a smooth schemer of Dr Kolenatý, Aleš Voráček a winning puppy of Janek....
...Arrow and Albert Hirschman....
...The highlight is a glorious, still-appealing fake: “Madonna of the Veil”, hailed as a masterpiece when it was bequeathed to the Courtauld in 1947 — until Kenneth Clark noticed that the rosebud lips and pencilled...
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