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...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...Until May 26; further information and tickets here Performance ‘The Hours’, Royal Danish Playhouse A Danish-language adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel....
...Letters in response to this article: Questions raised by the Wagner vs Bellingcat case / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand Let’s cap fees for Russian work at legal aid rates / From Charlie Geffen...
...Find the names of the obscure Cayman Islands entities SoftBank uses (in this case, the apparently Arthurian legend-themed Gawain II 2022 Holdings Limited, Valiant I 2022 Holdings Limited and Valiant II 2022...
...The Lucid deal and the merger of online education company Skillsoft with Churchill Capital Corp II netted Klein $690m, while Palihapitiya made $408m from the promotes of his two Spac deals last year, according...
...Take New Bond Street to the corner of Bruton Street and admire the Time & Life Building (Michael Rosenauer, 1951-3), which integrates reliefs by Henry Moore on its Bond Street façade....
...Michael Lewis’ Premonition is the story of a group of devoted American scientists and medical professionals who spent years preparing for a Covid-like pandemic, only to be frustrated at every turn by politicians...
...What did atomic physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg talk about on their critical meeting in 1941 (Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen) or Queen Elizabeth II say to the many prime ministers who have sat in...
...She was awarded this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design in a virtual ceremony....
...Michael Hayden, a retired general and former CIA director, said he was “appalled” to see Gen Milley in combat fatigues on Monday....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...“We sold a five-bedroom, double-fronted house around the corner for £2.5m in March,” says Michael Green, co-founder of Tatlers....
...Nude on Bed” (1959) or the encrusted sculptural relief “E.O.W.’s Reclining Head II” (1966). These are images in flux, of flux, imbued with terrific gravitas, even moral imperative....
...The chart below comes from one such paper, by W....
...Michael Zink, Singapore Photograph: Reuters...
...In the rocky wake of the banking crisis it sought, for fugitive Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a home from home among the gleaming high-rises....
...It is no small thing, therefore, for Protestants to listen to Messiaen in St Michael’s and for Catholics to watch clowns inside a Unionist Hall....
...We discuss the death of his brother, who flew a Mosquito plane during World War II. I tell him my grandfather met the same fate....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...It’s a curious mix of attractions: BMW World gets the number-one spot, followed by Ludwig II’s castle at Neuschwanstein....
...Happily, the main role is sung by Michael Spyres (Masaniello), a young American tenor with excellent French who has the best music in a very unequal score....
...Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth, by Barry Millington, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 This is the plain man’s Wagner – a balanced and beautifully illustrated compendium of life and works, written in...
...Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte 1849-1915, by Francis W Wcislo, Oxford University Press, RRP £35, 288 pages Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian...
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