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...Dessner himself has suggested a link to Baroque dance as a mark of affection for his sister, a choreographer and dancer, during her recent illness....
...Steve Coll, ‘Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power’ (2012) Favourite: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou....
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...Mark Simpson’s “Ave Maria” is the most touching, a setting of reverential beauty, though it is run close by Alexander Campkin’s darker, otherworldly “Ave Regina caelorum”....
...Mark-Anthony Turnage and Tom Coult, whose opera Violet gets its delayed first performance....
...Masses and Movements by Mark Bradford is showing until 31 October. hauserwirth.com...
...At House of the Nobleman, Golembiovskaya made her mark with pop-up shows that combined art with swanky properties (sometimes also for sale)....
...Check out this profile of Pessina by Mark Vandevelde and David Crow if you haven’t already....
...No blue plaque or memorial today marks the site of its former headquarters on Leadenhall Street in the City of London, which lies buried beneath the foundations of Richard Rogers’s glass-and-steel Lloyd’...
...Instead, the award hall of fame has become home to gripping corporate narratives, such as 2012’s winner, Steve Coll’s Private Empire, about ExxonMobil; deep histories, including Liaquat Ahamed’s magnificent...
...The grapes are harvested during the ‘vendemia’ in September to produce the ‘Coll de Roses’, including a Macabeo white wine....
...He chairs the group, which was announced by Mark Carney, Financial Stability Board chief, at the recent climate change summit in Paris....
...It is a splendid day, the sea widening ahead, the island of Coll to the south of us and a CalMac ferry, the Isle of Lewis, bustling by at 17 knots, heading for Oban....
...Referring to Mark Rothko, the American 20th-century abstract artist, and Canaletto, the 18th-century Venetian master, he says: “Why would a Rothko be worth 10 times a Canaletto?...
...Mr Banga is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Thomson Reuters, Marks Spencer plc and B&M Stores Limited....
...In short, a split not only limits problems caused when a student marks his own homework but gives him more time to do the homework in the first place....
...Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, by Steve Coll, Allen Lane, RRP£25 Coll’s “biography” of one of the most successful US multinationals won the 2012 FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year...
...Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation, by Mark Pagel, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 416 pages A fine book about human evolution....
...It was [for sale at] offers over £475,000 and it went towards the £600,000 mark.”...
...Earlier, Reuters had reported that a bank official claimed Mr Danino negotiated the deal along with Ms Riza’s lawyer and Xavier Coll, the bank vice-president for human resources....
...Willcox wanted to reproduce in her design the powerful colours in the work of US artist Mark Rothko....
...“Why should I try and compare with Marks and Spencer, which does jumpers by the 1,000, when there is a lack of sexy, individual and fashionable knitwear?” she says....
...The new funds, in contrast, are see-through products with investments that are held on a mark-to-market basis and priced through the day.”...
...Some collectors are reluctant to pay such a substantial mark up, especially if they can remember the pre-1975 days when buyers were charged nothing....
...The autumn auction season in New York promises to be a winner, with a wealth of fresh material on the market from private collections and estates. Sotheby’s has the estate of the late Laurance S....
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