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...with quick changes, killer lines, fizzing choreography (Jenny Arnold), oodles of charm and even more cheek, a brilliant five-strong cast (Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Zoë Roberts, Jak Malone and Claire-Marie...
...Even bars have caught on: at Three Sheets in Dalston, brothers Noel and Max Venning have devised a cocktail made up of Manotsuru sake (7.5ml), rhubarb sake (25ml), vodka (30ml) and peony tea tincture (2.5ml...
...Previous acts and artists include The 1975, Katy Perry, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Janet Jackson....
...In the mixed-owner portion, 10 works went unsold, including a 1938 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter against a pink background, estimated $20mn-$30mn....
...In the siblings’ office, a magnifying glass stands over a thread counter among piles and piles of fabric, “woven from specially chosen Gossypium barbadense cotton from the Nile delta”....
...Or perhaps it was April 21 2002, when far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the run-off of the presidential elections....
...“While we retain a cautious outlook on the external risk environment, we believe that the lows of recent quarters are behind us,” said Noel Quinn, chief executive....
...Baldwin, wryly amused, is humouring Moses down the end of the table; I hear snatches of conversation — “and then she threw me in the Nile”....
...This was my reading material, along with a healthy dose of Enid Blyton, brimming with moral priggishness, Malcolm Saville’s Lone Pine Five books, the Bobbsey Twins stories, Noel Streatfeild, Jean Estoril...
...All that has changed in the intervening generation is minimalism’s rise from one look among several to something like the metropolitan default, and, via Marie Kondo, its codification as lifestyle....
...The further we travel in time, the more rushed and confusing it becomes: encounters with significant figures such as Marie Curie are skimpy and under-developed; characters are sketchily drawn....
...Life celebrated the single, splashy image that could instantly imprint itself on the culture: Rita Hayworth in lacy lingerie, a tuxedoed Noël Coward coolly baking in the Las Vegas desert....
...The first demonstrator I met was Bernadette Noël, a 73-year-old nurse and great-grandmother who had come into the city from suburban Seine-et-Marne to complain about the increase in her pensioner’s tax bill...
...I devoured Mary Norton, Susan Coolidge, Noel Streatfeild. I was certain that I would one day write my own masterpiece....
...Hassan El-Telmisani’s untitled oil painting of 1947 depicts what might be a Nile peasant in rags, his head in a sack....
...Among them is Marie Gueudet, a second-year student on Audencia’s masters in management course....
...“We made a West Nile vaccine several years ago but couldn’t find a pharmaceutical partner. “It’s a different story with Zika,” Dr Fauci added....
...Perhaps the star piece of the display is the Marie-Antoinette watch, located in the high complication section....
...Other Chalonnaise bargains include Paul et Marie Jacqueson, La Pucelle Premier Cru 2014 Rully Blanc (£140 Lea & Sandeman) and a plump, only mildly rustic red Dom des Moirots 2014 Givry (£102 Howard Ripley...
...Now it’s the turn of a bemused but flattered Buffy Saint-Marie, for a run of UK dates....
...With past collaborations including the vessels for Dior’s Miss Dior, Schiaparelli’s Le Roy Soleil and Caron’s Nuit De Noel, it’s possible that Rouge 540 will also achieve a certain cult status....
...His bûche de Noël with cherry and pistachio, which he kindly shares here, is exquisite and delicious....
...The Bettencourt saga could have given Noel Coward, were he still alive, material for a bitter-sweet high society comedy of “poor little rich girls”....
...Sitting me at the tiller of a small craft, he would tilt his boater at a jaunty angle and tune up his Noël Coward medley....
...The Fillon family had been housed by the Egyptian government, which also offered a Nile cruise and a flight to the temple of Abu Simbel....
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