Hints and tips:
...It’s pretty, feminine and the industrial nail helps keep me grounded. It feels so light: I sleep, swim and ski with it....
...I might have responded the way a pair of brothers did, chewing their nails with worry in front of the winning entry — a photograph of the endangered tri-spine horseshoe crab, which faces destruction of its...
...Manaus — the big brash capital of Amazonas state, which is seeing a surge of interest in its colonial heritage and the majestic opera house built by rubber barons in the 19th century — and the backpacker paradise...
...When I gave seminars to officers at a US military base years ago, I marvelled at their socialist paradise....
...It’s also because there are white truffles, which have turned the place into a gourmand’s paradise....
...In Chopard’s latest Red Carpet collection, Paradise, artistic director Caroline Scheufele pushes gem colour to its limits and beyond, injecting preciousness with a daring contemporary fashion edge....
...For her husband’s inaugural ball, Madison stood out from the crowd in a velvet gown with a long train, a turban trimmed with bird-of-paradise feathers and a string of pearls....
...A radiant, borderless utopia of lipsticked mouths, model bodies, polished nails, birds of prey, fecund lilies, seductive architecture and crashing ocean waves, the Liverpool-born artist’s mural whispers...
...But trouble looms in this damp paradise — tell-tale traces of an affair. Teasy, Tom calls an angry Ruth that night. “Is that Cornish?”...
...Its faux-modest subtitle is A Novel, Graphic, which is like referring to Paradise Lost as A Poem, Religious....
...Virgin Money, which sponsors an arena near Newcastle, has launched a series of gigs with viewing platforms two metres apart, while the Paradise City festival near Brussels, usually land-based, took place...
...Shout-out too to the set designers who consistently nail 1970s bourgeois Italy in all its stuffy, mismatched elegance....
...I dream of white flowers blossoming under my nails, as if under ice. Then my nails break, opening up like clams and in the finger flesh there are little sticky fruit pearls.”...
...Concluding a volume that gracefully skims a tightrope between attentive looking and political thinking, this sits oddly — yet it nails the emotional gravitas of Clark’s entire venture....
...In fact, a law mandating such disclosures — Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act — has long been on the books but these same energy giants fought tooth and nail against its implementation....
...“She’s as hard as nails but you can do business with her,” Baker recalls. Timothy, by contrast, rarely broached disagreement. One Tory staffer says: “Nick is quite a shy character in some respects....
...At Pallant House’s superb new retrospective David Jones: Vision and Memory, the piece is displayed alongside “Vexilla Regis”, Jones’s towering depiction of blighted trees studded with nails and red ribbons...
...His nails, which extend more than an inch beyond his fingertips, look like the talons of an eagle (he says they are great for snipping leaves)....
...One of the perks of paradise — or Eden Island — is that owners may apply for residency of the Seychelles. With similar beneficence, Spain offers residency visas if you invest €500,000 in property....
...“I really didn’t nail it,” he admits. “I so loved musicals when I was a kid that I was emulating Gene Kelly.”...
...Arriving in Venice in May 1841, Ruskin eulogised the lagoon metropolis as a “Paradise of cities”....
...Today, our mission is to nail down an interview with Zuma, the engaging, raffish president. Zuma is the great survivor....
...His nails had been pulled out. The detention, torture and killing of the well-connected diplomat created an uproar....
...Since then, Mateschitz has been developing Laucala into a paradise retreat complete with numerous high-octane boys’ toys in keeping with Red Bull’s adrenalin-fuelled image....
...“When you go away to paradise destinations, you’re tanned and super-healthy so you feel much better about yourself. You’re in a much better mood to shop.”...
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