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...learn how Veres struck a deal with Italy’s anti-mafia police: using his contacts in the art world, he would help them locate one of Italy’s lost treasures, Caravaggio’s “Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence...
...“I used to forget the tiniest everyday things: I’d put eggs on to boil, I’d forget. Papers were stacked four feet high on my desk,” said Davis, 74....
...Aston Martin’s name only returned to F1 recently under Lawrence Stroll, a Canadian billionaire, following a six-decade hiatus....
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Ken Marcus, chair of the Louis D....
...In a poor start to my last year of £5 tickets, my regular D&D group conflicts with this very good-looking concert by the Nash Ensemble next week....
...‘The Migration Series’, 1940–41, Jacob Lawrence, (Room 520) Lawrence was only 23 when he created the 60-panel masterpiece that launched his reputation and still stands as a triumph of visual and moral authority...
...Lawrence FreedmanThese movements are too deeply rooted to be taken out in this way. I mean, I can understand why they’d rather have somebody else....
...This month, Lawrence Summers warned US corporate bosses against embracing Trump....
...Filled with now priceless collections of art and books, the house became tabloid-famous for a moment in 2003 when the fashion designer Stella McCartney married Alasdhair Willis at the house....
...Paul De’Ath, head of market intelligence at consultancy Oxbow Partners, said: “It’s a bit of a surprise, I would have thought they’d be very careful about making sure they weren’t doing anything outside...
...Come September, they’d look great with a long tank dress and oversized blazer. That is, if you can get your hands on a pair....
...A DB Vantage bought in the same year would have been a much better store of value — and you’d have had the pleasure of driving it in the meantime....
...DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Rabelais, Henry Fielding, Anaïs Nin, Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Marie Stopes, Betty Dodson, Carl Jung, Marilyn French and Germaine Greer....
...loveliest summer traditions happens on August 10 each year, as people gather to gaze at the night sky in the hope of catching a glimpse of a shooting star, which are said to represent the tears shed by Saint Lawrence...
...Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has also been drafted in to provide experience. Adam D’Angelo, chief executive of question-and-answer platform Quora, will remain a board member....
...Willi Riester, the chief technology officer in China at Chiron, a family-run maker of machine tools, said that 15 years ago local competition was rare and “not really able to produce and engineer machines...
...“I was raised around artists, so I had this idea that I’d be downgrading myself if I became a designer,” she recalls. “But I got over it....
...Arriving in 1912, DH Lawrence found “the whole place was so terribly raw” that he couldn’t bear to stay the night....
...Although he wears his 100-strong collection of kippers far less frequently now, he continues to champion spearpoint-collared shirts, which he has made for him bespoke by Emma Willis....
...In “Spray It Loud”, Jill Posener displays gleefully defaced advertisements including Fiat’s “If it were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched” — the scrawled reply is: “If this lady was a car, she’d run...
...Lawrence Venuti, a translation theorist of the left, argued that translators should aim to “send the reader abroad” by leaning in to the most foreign idioms of their sources....
...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...“If we focused more on the practical details, I think we’d find we agree much more.”...
...“If a company was going public and came to us when we’d never met them before and said ‘do you want the cornerstone?’...
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