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...The whole thing has the hallucinatory feel of a fever dream: it’s as if we are in Blanche’s traumatised and disintegrating mind as the illusions that have sustained her begin to collapse in on themselves...
...“Today, we have light yellows with thyme and several browns with other ingredients like chestnut. Greens are on the way....
...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...Tea fever gripped Europe in the late 17th century but supplies remained scarce and plant hunters, notably the Scotsman Robert Fortune, were commissioned to find more of the stuff....
...The jumbled bodies and beasts in a veil of flame in “Chasse aux lions (esquisse)” called to my mind Cecily Brown; Cy Twombly is a breath away from the limpid pools of “Les Baigneuses”....
...The coda is Cecily Brown’s “Boy with a Cat” (2015), a smart abstracted painterly riff on Manet’s odalisque....
...Meanwhile, Les Lalanne fever has also come to London as Ben Brown has transformed his gallery into Instagram gold with a dedicated exhibition that opened this week (to January 26; works from €40,000 to €2m...
...On Thursday and Friday, staff began erecting NPS signs at Katahdin Woods — the uniform brown signs with the same familiar fonts that stretch across the nation....
...Try Revlon Grow Luscious Mascara in Blackened Brown, from £9.99 or Burberry Beauty Bold Lash Mascara in 02 Chestnut Brown, from £23. Curl your lashes first....
...A fascinating precursor to le Carré’s own promised memoir....
...The garden’s most famous ornament is not an urn or a kangaroo in brown twisted wire....
...This setback followed his unsuccessful backing, in 2010, of Tina Brown’s attempt to revive the 83-year-old magazine Newsweek, which he sold again within three years....
...I notice that two coffee cream puffs sit untouched in the middle of the table, topped with brown sugar and a fleck of gold leaf....
...‘Raphaël, les dernières années’, Louvre, Paris, to January 14. www.louvre.fr/en...
...Shakespeare’s Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub, by Pete Brown, Macmillan, RRP£16.99 Brown is an unashamed beer nerd but by some happy twist of fate he’s also a fascinating...
...Election fever is already heating up in France with the first US-style primaries to choose the Socialist party’s presidential hopeful this autumn – more candidates than electors, noted one wag – and the...
...Here we go: election fever grips Britain Forget The X Factor and Celebrity Big Brother is so last year. Election fever is sweeping the nation, or at least the nation’s newsrooms....
...Alexander McCall Smith’s ‘The Careful Use of Compliments’ is published by Little Brown...
...Journalist Le Bor uses the deeply moving experiences of individuals as a lens through which to explore the complex history of Israel and Palestine in the 20th century....
...Dutch anti-immigration fever is the consequence of too many people in too small a space....
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