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...He’d see them in dreams....
...The most immediately engaging was Bruno Maderna’s Oboe Concerto No 3, conjuring a kaleidoscope of flickering sounds against which soloist Nicholas Daniel created marvels of expression....
...Standing just metres from a stand promoting American soyabeans exports, Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to China, was eager to emphasise his country’s contribution to one of the world’s biggest trade fairs...
...André Breton was working in the neurological ward and reading Freud....
...Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed a radical overhaul of the constitution, including plans for a directly elected supreme court and a smaller legislature....
...André MackSo you just like swirling the wine and this is like really aerating the wine. So then I’d go back to smelling. And exhaling. So to me, this smells like wet rock....
...Frankly, once that’s up and running, if the government says we’d like to put some money into there, that’s fine.”...
...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
...(Even the poet Thomas Chatterton, poster boy for the “Romantic” suicide, faced prosaic poverty when he chose to swallow arsenic in 1770.)...
...Nicholas ThomasDirector, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professor of Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge Sujit SivasundaramProfessor of World History, University of Cambridge James...
...Her tutors there were Jeffery Camp, Frank Auerbach (“good teachers, both”) and Thomas Monnington, later president of the Royal Academy, who she feels was more interested in Matthew’s work....
...Thomas Pugh: Significant reform of the planning system....
...“He’d always have a tape measure in his pocket . . . he’d be busy measuring up how long other jewellers’ windows were and taking photos of what they were doing,” says Anthony’s grandson James Amos, a Boodles...
...Fifa World Cup: It’s the final matches in groups C and D today. Tunisia play France and Australia take on Denmark, while Saudi Arabia face Mexico and Argentina play Poland....
...British R&D spending also remains a concern. In 2019, private and public investment in the UK totalled £38.5bn, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics....
...and Thomas Partners Simon ThomasChief Executive, Hippodrome Casino Simon ThomasHead Concierge, Lanesborough Hotel; Honorary President, Les clefs d’Or International Ewan VentersCEO, ARTFARM GROUP Ltd....
...Professor Nicholas Thomas, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, which is in the process of transferring ownership of bronzes (subject to Charity Commission...
...And Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN mission to the country, spoke last month of “unprecedented levels” of internal conflict, like the one which displaced Jamba....
...This time, the painting sold for $37m ($40m with fees), reportedly from the collection of the artist-musician José Cano André....
...Whatever the company does, its executive chair André Calantzopoulos said, people “try to find the negative rather than the positive”. He has spoken of an “obsessive focus” on Big Tobacco....
...(When a male mosquito wishes to attract a mate, his wings buzz at a frequency of 600Hz, the equivalent of D natural.)...
...After lunch, I’d walk over to 21st and Collins to The Bass museum, one of Miami Beach’s first and finest examples of Art Deco construction, built in the 1930s....
...“I felt a bit of a fraud because all I’d done is play trains,” said Jones, who also married a Polish woman....
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...Under him, Cox & Kings grew into a sprawling travel conglomerate aspiring to rival other historic groups such as Thomas Cook....
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