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...When Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson discovered Sissinghurst Castle in the spring of 1930, the sprawling estate had been on sale for two years and the ruinous remains of the Tudor manor...
...Vita Sackville-West’s choice was The Enchanted Mountains by Robin Fedden....
...Sir Nicholas Serota, 71, the long-serving director of the UK’s Tate galleries until 2016, has created a portfolio career, spending two days a week in new role as chair of Arts Council England....
...Vita — married to fund manager Richard Pease and sister- in-law of the so-called Posh-n-Becks of finance Crispin Odey and Nichola Pease — assured the crowd that the book is “entirely fictional”....
...Another sister-in-law, Nichola Pease, ran JO Hambro and is married to flamboyant hedgie Crispin Odey....
...Director, BDS Creative Ltd, body>data>space, and Women Shift Digital Gideon Farrell Co-Founder and CTO, Converge Giles Andrews Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Zopa Giles Brook CEO - EMEA, Vita...
...Academic insight Are you more graphite than diamond, asks Yale sociologist Professor Nicholas Christakis, who researches how humans change their behaviour in different social groups....
...It is a unique example of English baroque built around 1700 by Nicholas Hawksmoor (collaborator with Vanburgh and assistant to Sir Christopher Wren)....
...In Rome during the dolce vita years, the Crespis became celebrities of the day, a glamorous couple who would, on their evening strolls down the via Condotti, “literally stop traffic”....
...In contrast, Nicholas Shaw’s Romeo largely fails to find any music in his lines and thus makes a poor show as an impassioned lover....
...“Bella vita militar” is a cheap flag-waving exercise, while “Un’ aura amorosa” passes without a shred of pathos....
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