Hints and tips:
...I make my way to a low-lit room hung with portraits of America’s founding fathers and their Native American contemporaries....
...In London, the V&A is undertaking the restoration of an interior by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)....
...In 1976, the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon was commissioned by Rolling Stone magazine to create a series of portraits on American power....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 8 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“Fifty per cent of Americans did not step into a movie theatre last year, and of the 50 per cent that did go into a theatre, 95 per cent of them went to one or two films,” he said....
...much of American reality”....
...The American expansion will also be a favourable force next year....
...… Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...Within days of the disaster he was in the country forming an aid group, J/P HRO, which would take a lead role in the relief effort....
...The Son , by Philipp Meyer, Simon & Schuster, RRP£14.99/Ecco, RRP$27.99 As epic as the sweep of the American west, Meyer’s second novel thunders through the years as Native Americans and white settlers...
...Mr Solomon’s office is cluttered with pieces of American folk art, reflecting his interest in US history....
...‘Golden Spider Silk’, V&A Studio Gallery, January 25 – June 5...
...Duflo is wearing trousers and a V-necked magenta sweater, with a thin gold chain around her neck. As she speaks, she sometimes thrusts her hands into the opposing sleeves, as if wearing muffs....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...I have been trying to resolve my internal Mac v PC battle....
...It’s Canadian, but there’s Chinese and Japanese, Indians, Filipinos and black people and native Americans and it’s a big old mix but people mostly get on OK, I’d say....
...So too in Roots did O.J. Simpson, then famous chiefly for his prowess as a sportsman....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...Ken Wright, London Satyajit Das: Politicians and regulators globally are currently busy drafting laws to regulate derivatives....
...: UK 3-year TSR: -6.1% Angela Ahrendts has mastered the art of turning round a troubled brand....
...Frank Lloyd Wright....
...The second world war did him no harm although he was already a millionaire when the US got involved. J.R....
...But today those taking up golf see pictures of Seve Ballesteros in a plain navy blue Slazenger V-neck jumper and think, ‘How cool does he look? I want to look like that.’”...
...In fact, American troops in Afghanistan have been reduced to wooing the natives by handing out soccer balls....
...The building – complete with glass-fronted atrium – will house a piece of the Berlin Wall and a 40ft piece of native Indian art, but not all the 500 US embassy staff....
International Edition