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...(The cost of a mosaic depends on the materials and size commissioned; as a rule of thumb, prices start at around £700 per sq m.)...
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s edition is about the mid-term elections in the United States....
...I’m a big fan of the English Lamp Company, which sells handcrafted reproduction lights in Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and Art Nouveau styles....
...My favourite is Black Swan, which is like a speakeasy with the best cocktails in town....
...“I’m in no way coming here and imposing the RSC style on them: that would be terrible....
...For the cover of her 2007 album Volta, Bernhard Willhelm encased her in a blobby styrofoam “body sculpture” like a psychedelic version of a dancing M&M. Both outfits show up at MoMA....
...On this journey I’m travelling with a photographer, a colleague I respect, but frankly (how to put this elegantly?)...
...He used to say – all too aptly, I’m afraid – that he would have liked to play Baron Hard-up but his agent could never get him the role....
...It was part early Madonna, part Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, with a generous helping of Margot Fonteyn in Swan Lake....
...I’m secretly relieved about the lack of company, because we are about to negotiate the rapids at Monnington Falls....
...Rod Berglund of Joseph Swan vineyards taught us not to touch the innocent-looking poison-oak saplings as we slid through woodland....
...It sounds at best a waste of their time, at worst a dereliction of duty: “Hold the mega-merger – I’m just finishing the chapter on leadership.”...
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...But the pocketed hand twitches about as he emphasises phrases and words, like the frantic feet of a gliding swan....
...MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul Picador £16.99, 304 pages I found V.S. Naipaul by process of elimination....
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