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...a couple of weeks, but proper, open-ended living — Oscar Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn Monroe...
...A record 3.9m people visited the V&A group museums in 2015-16....
...Members of the Royal Academy laid on a “street party” in Burlington Gardens last month, with performances, talks, workshops and music on the temporarily pedestrianised road....
...They had to travel to Rome by ship, as the war of the Spanish succession still raged over northern Europe....
...Biggest Deal: The $26.6bn acquisition of US railway Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2009....
...Though entitled Loretta Young: Hollywood Legend, the show also features Louis’s Gilda dress, photos of Marlene Dietrich’s age-defying body stocking, and the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when...
...Highlights will include a pearl drop earring worn by Charles I at his execution, important royal tiaras from British and European nobility and a cultured pearl necklace that belonged to Marilyn Monroe....
...Hollywood also decamped to this hot, dry valley in droves: Monroe was a frequent visitor, while Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and many others bought homes there....
...“I did go to the Chelsea v Leeds [1970] cup final. And the replay. I went to the first final with my mother, and to the replay with my dad.”...
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...Here, a picture of Marilyn Monroe pouts above the sisters’ bedroom in “Les Girls” (1993), but a Byzantine madonna stares out at us too....
...Zoo Art Fair Royal Academy of Arts 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3EX www.zooartfair.com Now in its fifth year, Zoo remains the largest and most high-profile of the satellite art fairs....
...www.ragoarts.com v Side table English Dated around 1760, this majestic side table is made in the grand neo-classical style, which was first fashionable early in the reign of George III, from 1760 to 1820...
...Legal experts say the Supreme Court’s last foray into retaliation law, the 2006 decision Burlington Northern v....
...For four days last September the fashionable jeweller Theo Fennell hired the Royal Academy of Arts’ majestic apartments in Burlington Gardens for a show of his jewellery. Aptly named “Show Off!”...
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
...the early 1950s on, his furniture designs acquired an international reputation and a prestigious clientele, ranging from the United Nations and the government of Venezuela to Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe...
...All the 500 units in the Absolute Tower – dubbed the “Marilyn Monroe building” for its smooth, gyrating curves – sold in a day, prompting Ma to design a second, smaller building that also sold out instantly...
...B is a great backdoor way to play the current railroad boom that guys such as Warren Buffett have been predicting with his purchase of companies such as Union Pacific and Burlington Northern....
...In one recent case, Burlington Northern v White, the court issued what appeared to be an anti-business ruling, making it easier for employees to sue when their employer punishes them for bringing a job discrimination...
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