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...Sport The French Open, Stade Roland-Garros The red clay courts welcome the best in the game from all over the globe for this annual Grand Slam tournament....
...Clay jars of architectural seed heads and wafting grasses and vases of flowers and greenery provide quiet altars to plant life against cool, lime-washed walls....
...The parents of Chema Marrero, owner of Restaurante Valle de Mogán, were country people who once kept sheep, goats, and black pigs in the whitewashed, clay-tiled barns of the family farm....
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...You won’t find “booze ‘n’ balls” evenings (the drinking games mixed with tennis drills popular at some other camps)....
...The gadget I couldn’t do without is a Chef’n Looseleaf Kale and Herb Stripper for cleaning mustard greens and collard greens....
...If N’Diaye or Kerin feel resentful that they have become facilitators of other people’s creativity, they don’t show it....
...Imports put a cap on pricing power but the barriers to entry are otherwise very high, as there are few opportunities to buy a clay pit....
...“I’d gone to this wine and R’n’B event in Brixton called Genuwine, where Dan was DJing. And when he saw me, he was like, ‘You’re Dynamite! What are you doing here?’...
...UK tour continues until October 18; thepretenders.com Photograph: Felix Clay/Eyevine...
...This was the result of the influence of a popular song by Henry Clay Work in 1875 called “My Grandfather’s Clock”. Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Next door is a room labelled “ACCOUNTING” in gold with the second “N” missing....
...Throughout the 1990s the crucial weeks for bedding were hot and rainless and planting needed a crowbar on clay soils....
...It’s just six clay courts and perfect for round robins. I always make our house guests play; it’s like Mao’s Long March....
...She is a pioneer – with her rock ’n’ roll band but constantly in haute couture. I first saw her at a Tim Burton premiere and couldn’t take my eyes off her....
...Well, not a pot, exactly — more of a comic-book cauldron, awaiting its heat-’n’-serve human....
...Still, Ali might be known to more people in the world than anyone of the past half-century and, whether as a symbol of black emancipation or sporting mastery or rock ’n’ roll charisma, he is a straightforward...
...wonder — as well as Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”....
...At that time — the 1960s — hard-setting grey Portland cement was still the cheap ’n’ easy wonder material that was supposed to last for ever....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain Photographs: Pascal Shirley; M&N/Nikos Desyllas/Alamy; RGB Ventures/SuperStock/Alamy...
...Melissa Harrison is a nature writer and author of the novel ‘Clay’ (Bloomsbury)...
...Rock ’n’ roll was beginning to make waves but even Elvis Presley, seen by some as a threat to civilisation, had no problems donning uniform when drafted into the army (unlike Cassius Clay in the 1960s, whose...
...The synthesis of fashion, controversy and brutal rock ‘n’ roll he achieved with the Sex Pistols still echoes....
...She says her striking sculptural coiled clay vessels “grow and unravel”; I found the work both interesting and sophisticated. Fabien Cappello....
...So what of the national pavilions, the traditional pick’n’mix? They span, as usual, the reflective and intellectual and the pretentious and awesomely dull....
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