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...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...Our house was built in 1889 by the heir to a steam-locomotive fortune, William Burnham of Philadelphia: all lathed cypress panelling, no expense spared....
...(FT, Nikkei Asian Review) ‘Three Marks, two Robs, and one Rich’ Larry Fink last week hinted at a broader reshuffle later this year in a memo....
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...Covers of “Along Came Betty” and “Satellite” obliquely referenced The Jazz Messengers and John Coltrane while the ballad “Body and Soul” was phrased at the harmonies’ edge....
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
...The biggest chunk came from the sale of the Butler’s Wharf building to the late Zaha Hadid, who had purchased it as an archive and exhibition space....
...Looking back on it, I am reminded of the words that the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, used to describe an earlier political tragedy. A terrible beauty was born in the New York of that time....
...The more so when he turned out to be William Butler Yeats. They wound up in her car, parked by the Athenaeum’s steps, talking until dawn....
...Works range from Francesco Squarcione’s 15th-century watercolour “Two Men in Conversation” to “Africa” by pop art precursor Larry Rivers....
...William D. Cohan is the author of ‘Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World’ and two other books about Wall Street...
...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...
...“The company still has a very real task in front of it to convince investors that the growth is still ahead,” said Lise Buyer, an IPO adviser with the Class V Group....
...The new groom was Larry Fortensky, a 20-years-her junior construction worker she met at the Betty Ford alcohol rehabilitation clinic. That marriage too finally foundered....
...Prince William and Catherine Middleton may fare better, but you wouldn’t bet money....
...David Butler, fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Roger Carr, chairman, Centrica....
...He is survived by his wife, Betty, and a son and daughter....
...George V stayed here, as did Edward VIII, and Tsar Nicholas II. Apart from that, this place seems to have been, up to now, rather unloved....
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...Jo Prosser, managing director of V&A Enterprises, the trading company of the V&A, is proud that the museum is recognised as a brand....
...David Butler, chairman, British Motorsport Association for the Disabled. Jenson Button, Formula One world champion. Harry Chambers, poetry publisher. Lauren Child, author and illustrator....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The British system has been rich in vivid enmities, as this study of 200 years of political rivalries from Charles James Fox v William Pitt to Tony Blair v Gordon Brown amply demonstrates....
...Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Cape, £18.99 A more approachable offering than earlier doorstoppers such as V and Gravity’s Rainbow, this Californian yarn featuring pot-smoking private eye Larry...
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