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...This self-titled album starts with the declamatory brass of “Martini Sweet” supported by a bustle of back beats and testy double bass, and continues with the spiritual “Koko-v-Dank” unfolding over a two-chord...
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...There was also a V-shaped neck pillow and a sort of snake-like one that reminded me of something I used during the latter stages of pregnancy....
...Street Fighter V Champion Edition for PlayStation 4, £24, amazon.co.uk...
...But while I was working at the Georges V in Paris, I asked a customer if I could make him a Manhattan my way....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...Now, can you please get me a martini?”...
...Waiting for surgery on her eye after being hit by the grenade in Sri Lanka, she joked with Ryan: “All I want now is a cigarette and a vodka martini.” He added the line to the end of her copy....
...I much appreciated this op-ed by Richard V. Spencer, the US navy secretary who was fired last Sunday for trying to shield the US system of military justice from Trump’s interference....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...What we’re reading There’s money in moderation It’s easy to scoff at “activated coal martinis” or a “pious piña colada” but bars, mixologists and supermarkets have embraced the no-alcohol trend....
...Since its renovation nearly a decade ago, the 300-seat Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macau’s Unesco-recognised historic centre has regained much of its lapsed glory....
...A lunch true to the spirit of the show would involve us downing several martinis before staggering back to our respective offices for a nap....
...Christina Martini left her role as senior shoe designer for Balenciaga in order to launch Ancient Greek Sandals in 2011....
...But in 1989, an advertisement for Martini featured a red Roberts radio in the background....
...Marie Colvin went further and stayed longer than other war reporters – it was what gave her journalism the intimacy and authenticity that set it aside, and what led to her death last Wednesday....
...Indeed, the v-shape that results from a diamond position might even make it uncomfortable for your back, with two symmetrical bits of hollowness on your spine, thereby making the cushion not quite fit for...
...There are a few mementos of his BP career – a cartoon of him wielding a gun next to a meek Vladimir Putin offering a martini, done in the happier days of the Russian joint venture TNK-BP....
...The house champagne, from grower Jacques Copinet, is excellent while the martini, served in a V-shaped glass resting on another glass full of ice cubes, was described to me by a cosmopolitan Hong Kong friend...
...Fisher and James V. Koch, argues otherwise. It reasons that a substantial proportion of entrepreneurial behaviour is genetically determined....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...This battle for authenticity has more twists than the peel in your martini....
...Analysts and bankers said Brown-Forman, the US maker of Jack Daniels, and Bacardi-Martini, the rum maker, were among the most likely bidders after the controlling Macdonald family revealed it intended to...
...The biggest growth, however, came from ready to drink, where the US launch of Smirnoff Twisted V pushed organic growth up 7 per cent....
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