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...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent [The people of Bilbao are born where they want] by Maria Larrea, who is a French screenwriter....
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...The first solo exhibition of the Lebanese artist’s work in a US museum includes her Bribes de corps series, whose experimentation hinges on the body....
...“In Venezuela, there is a desert of information where disinformation can thrive,” said Adrián González, director of Cazadores de Fake News, a misinformation monitor based in Caracas....
...Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles That Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman (Viking)Published in the NHS’s 75th anniversary year, Fighting For Life tells the history of the...
...Maria Shollenbarger Colour, from €80. Haircuts, from €60....
...Maria Milano Maria is head of womenswear at Harrods and a self-confessed trench coat addict....
...That impasse has led Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the regional government chief, to describe Madrid’s 6.6m inhabitants as “hostages”....
...“To lose the plebiscite would be a national disaster,” claims Humberto de la Calle, who led the government team during the Havana peace talks....
...None of these designers set up the labels themselves; they were recruited, often by men, but also by women such as Floriane de Saint Pierre....
...Crispin Somerville, co-owner of El Pastor Richard Haward’s Cherrystone clams are consistently perfect....
...Timothy Everest, 35 Bruton Place, London W1 (020-3802 7011; timothyeverest.co.uk)....
...The exposition itself took place in Maria Luisa Park where Plaza de España was built to show off Spanish industry....
...For its director, María Mercedes González, the museum’s reincarnation reflects both the “transformation of the city, and the growth of Colombia’s art scene in the last 15 years”....
...There is even talk of a “boom” in contemporary Colombian art — a notion that María Mercedes González, director of Medellín’s Museum of Modern Art (MAMM), dismisses....
...Maria Luís Albuquerque, Portuguese finance minister Party affiliation: Social Democrat (European People’s Party) Pros: If de Guindos falls in the first round, some believe Albuquerque is the best poised...
...I bore all this in mind when I returned to Céu de Maria on a bitterly cold Friday night....
...In 1961, González co-founded the avant-garde group Techo de la Ballena (“The Roof of the Whale”), and he effectively equated development with armed attack....
...A joy to behold, the pages thrill with his signature joie de vivre....
...Maria....
...Rosa María Vázquez, a 60-year-old resident, can barely believe her eyes....
...According to Carrie Chapman, accessories buyer for Barneys Co-op, women aren’t just gravitating to one style but to a whole assortment....
...At the height of Jesús de Polanco’s powers in the 1980s, El Pais was such an influential newspaper that Felipe González, then prime minister, banned its reading before cabinet meetings lest his ministers...
...Cave de Morgex, Vini Estremi 2006 Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle £9.28 Caves de Pyrène11.5% Aromatic, mineral, biodynamic....
...Outside, her colleague Isabel Lage takes a cigarette break. “I love everything in the US,” she says in Spanish. “In Cuba I had nothing.”...
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