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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...“They’re really lovely pieces,” says the V&A’s senior fashion curator Oriole Cullen of Gunning’s clothes: a salt-and-pepper tweed coat with pink cuffs, a black lace evening dress with a trumpeted hem and...
...The so-called “grave goods” were meant to follow their owners into the afterlife. In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Pequins (literally “small peppers”) are the visual units that make up Fendi’s historic motif....
...– watermelon, corn, artichoke, wine aubergine, pumpkin, loads of peppers…” Also, his favourite, a selection of cherry tomatoes in different colours....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...Finally the news came that Volodymyr’s body had been found in a mass grave in the Izyum forest, among hundreds of other victims....
...Discarded eggplants, peppers, tomatoes and squash spread out on the ground awaiting burial, a bounty of inexorable rot....
...As it chronicles how facts have held less sway than punchy PR, Big Oil v The World sadly seems destined to suffer the same fate....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...The rice dish of spinach and langoustines and the strawberry, cucumber and kefir dessert with black pepper were for me the standouts of her springtime repertoire....
...Regardless, Windhorst continued to pepper Chailley with invitations to private dinners....
...At the bottom of the valley lies a cluster of granite-built houses around a pepper-pot church: the small Spanish village that for 23 years has been my stamping ground....
...Good price for classic Graves freshness. £21.40 Haynes Hanson & Clark Marziano Abbona, Papà Celso 2021 Dolcetto di Dogliani 14.5%Real bite and pure Piemonte. Bring on the raw meat!...
...The 47-year-old, whose doctoral thesis was on 17th-century currency policy, frequently peppers his conversations with historical references to previous economic crises, according to a business leader who...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...trio’s easy camaraderie plays out throughout the photo shoot, which is set against the backdrop of Houseago’s room-size plaster, hemp and rebar work Cast Studio (stage, chairs, bed, mound, cave, bath, grave...
...At the Bargello, the republic’s oldest public palace, “St George” stands firmly, legs apart, handsome, with regular features, knitted brow and grave gaze, vibrant with compressed energy — an emblem of secular...
...When Kyiv regained control, officials found mass graves of civilians, and heard accounts of the sort of atrocities now being uncovered on a larger scale in Kyiv’s suburbs....
...On April 28 1636, President Methwold, the East India Company’s most senior official in Asia, took up his quill to write a grave letter to the directors back home....
...That consisted of songbirds, pan-fried in schmaltz with diced apples, ginger, pepper, and sugar....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
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