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...Maurice’s father, Billy, possessed the family artistic streak as a lace designer; one of his drawings in white ink on black card employs a dazzling trompe-l’oeil effect with its rendering of fabric creases...
...Both the White House and William Barr, the attorney-general, had previously indicated they would not block Mr Mueller from testifying....
...The House judiciary committee has escalated its stand-off with the White House by sending a new round of subpoenas to former White House officials — including Hope Hicks — as Democrats weigh their next steps...
...The White House has been refusing to assist with House investigations into the issues raised by Mr Mueller or to comply with Congressional subpoenas....
...Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, confirmed that the White House had received the committee’s request....
...Below are the three incoming Democratic House committee chairs who are likely to have the biggest impact on the White House and the president’s future in office....
...sheers under tennis socks and Reebok hi-tops, my tight associations are inspired by schoolgirl disco dreams — from Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” lipsticked sirens in the sheerest of black stockings, to Courtney...
...It’s a problem for people lucky enough to have decent white-collar work....
...Thus Van Gogh’s radical pink-white “Orchard in Blossom (Plum Trees)”, painted just after his arrival in Arles in 1888, is set against Daubigny’s fluent, harmonious “Orchard in Blossom” from 1874, which the...
...(Last year’s winner was The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Heard of it? Neither had I.)...
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