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...There were also cheesy 1970s eruptions of garish colour: a doe-eyed Bambi in the snow and kittens beside Christmas trees....
...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....
...Wigdor has accused Black of trying to “humiliate and retaliate against [Doe] for her decision to speak out against his sexual abuse”....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...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....
...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....
...“Our mission is to dream up and deliver design-led paper products,” adds Atighetchi, who counts the V&A, fashion brand Mother of Pearl, interiors wunderkind Matilda Goad and Gucci-endorsed illustrator Fee...
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...Star Kumail Nanjiani (of TV’s Silicon Valley) based the screenplay, co-written with wife Emily V. Gordon, on their own life. He was, and in the film is, a struggling stand-up comedian....
...Museums are holding special shows, from Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern to Paul Strand at the V&A, while many commercial art galleries have put on photography: for instance, Shigeo Anzaï at White...
...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....
...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....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan in 1802-05, and William Orme’s work (some based on earlier oil paintings by Francis Swain Ward) showed the western public splendours both old and new – the dreamy spires of Muhammad...
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
...US Supreme Court cases such as Plyler v Doe make it hard to discriminate by citizen status, as does the Human Rights Act of 1998 in Britain....
...Then there was that other well-publicised fashion celebration: the V&A Museum’s “Golden Age of Couture” exhibition, examining Parisian and London couture from 1947 to 1957; a period Christian Dior himself...
...In a reflection of tennis’s schizoid fortunes, the David Nalbandian v James Blake semi-final that followed felt like punishment, almost another sport....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Boxers, like actors, have long devised more billboard-friendly handles – Kid Gavilan, Fighting Harada, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard – but that was not why Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali of...
...The 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v Doe held that children of illegal immigrants had the same right to public education as US citizens. But there is a limit to this process....
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