Hints and tips:
...Muhammad Ali laughs as he enters the room. He’s taking in the V&A’s south Asian collection and the 16th-century Ardabil carpet on to which my brother and I have manoeuvred a low table....
...Eleanor Lakelin plays with this dynamic in her elegant yet crumbling vessels created from the horse-chestnut trees outside what was once Wilde’s cell in Reading....
...Chestnuts and limes sigh; ash echoes the sound of the sea while beech gives a stiffer rattling sigh....
...But also something soft and familiar and welcoming about the patches of vineyard, the chestnut woods, the orchards where citrus trees spattered with bright spots of orange and yellow lurked behind a thick...
...The autumn menu brings a variety of seasonal produce to the fore – pumpkins, chestnuts, cloudberries – but its crowning glory is surely the starter of tomatoes cured in kombu, redcurrant and preserved ramson...
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Fontainebleau Climbs guidebook, v-publishing.co.uk....
...Since Downton Abbey’s main character is Downton Abbey, the mountains must visit Muhammad. Cue King George V and Queen Mary bestowing a royal visit....
...Watching the great and almost-local Cyrus Chestnut play jazz piano in Washington’s Blues Alley, the “other” DC fizzles away....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...An extravagantly muscled hunk in a red singlet, with a flowing mane of chestnut hair, Jenner was never heard from again....
...Slat is skinny, with a mop of chestnut hair and bright blue eyes....
...To be fair, there would have to be a computerised fight, just as that in 1969 between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano. The computer determined that Marciano would knock Ali out in the 13th round....
...I do not normally move in the company of boxers, probably because of fear of a left hook to the kidneys, but I was fortunate enough to meet Muhammad Ali once....
...This is, roughly speaking, the area lying between the V formed by the forking tines of York Way and Caledonian Road, bordered by the Regent’s Canal to the north....
...I wasn’t sure how to answer, having been trying to deal with the old subjective v objective chestnut since the age of 12 or 13....
...In a country where women must cover their heads in public, what does it mean when Tavakolian shows a young woman – indoors – with a lustrous chestnut mane?...
...Now, I don’t know any of your soccer players or any cricket guys but I bet you’ve heard of Muhammad Ali.”...
...… Mansha greets me in casual attire: a checked grey shirt, V-necked cardigan and denim slacks, with Asics running shoes peeping out below....
...They had names: The Fight of the Century (Frazier v Ali, 1971), The Rumble in the Jungle (Foreman v Ali, 1974), The Thrilla in Manila, (Ali v Frazier, 1975)....
...The London 100m was going to be the ultimate sizzler: the Champ v the Kid....
...; Jean Paul Gaultier, who injected his Fair Isle gilet with a nomadic mood courtesy of strips of black fur around the arm holes; and Proenza Schouler, where Fair Isles came cropped, V-neck, and thick, teamed...
...Also at the V&A: Sebastian Wrong and Richard Woods’ “Bench Press”, the reclaimed materials installation “Wasted”, and “In Praise of Shadows”....
...Past Notre Dame, we glide into the chestnut-shaded place Dauphine as if into a dream. It is so picturesque you catch your breath....
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