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...“No matter where this came down, you were going to have a lot of unhappy people,” said Michael Littenberg, partner at Ropes & Gray....
...Plaudits, though, for Sophie Buhai’s silk-rope necklace with a canister for “carrying your Xanax, your vitamins or your crystals”....
...Substacker Russell Clark estimates that the newsletter platform economic engine for culture is making about $20mn of revenues on an annualised basis....
...“Imagine something goes massively wrong or massively right with a particular sector,” said George Raine, a Ropes & Gray partner who specialises in fund management. “It becomes a ticking time bomb....
...“There are many beautiful houses and other amazing chinoiserie examples, such as those at Russell Priory, yet one of the lovely things about Belvoir is its uninterrupted history,” he says....
...In another powerhouse performance, Stephen Graham is the prison warder showing him the ropes while trying to fend off the cons who are determined to drag him down....
...“She turned up and worked hard every day of the week leading up to the show,” says one insider about the woodland plot with treehouse, waterfall, stream and a rope swing hung from the trees....
...As well as the requisite armchairs and table seating, a large section of one floor is made of rope netting, creating a kind of giant mattress where visitors can lie back with one of the 92,000 books, or...
...For many years he’s been making experimental masks from rope, sewn together in spirals. I’ve christened my latest one George....
...What Beigbeder brings to the lab bench is his rueful, self-mocking persona as an “ancient libertine” stranded in the health-fixated age of quinoa and skipping ropes, a mischievous wit, and the shameless...
...The Shaker works on the stand of specialist John Keith Russell could not have made for a greater contrast in their quiet, if dour, purity....
...Still, as Clyde Russell of Reuters observed, these are strange days for coal....
...Why: The house was made by local carpenters in a traditional Polynesian style with a thatched-palm roof and noble hardwood throughout the interior, including the handmade rope and wood spiral staircase....
...He stepped over the VIP rope at a party, shook my hand politely, and then lumbered off. Clearly, the public and private versions of Weinstein lead separate lives....
...Chanel wore several ropes of pearls in varying lengths, and turned them into haute couture and fast fashion, mixing real pearls — whether natural or cultivated — with plastic....
...The climbers fashioned a seat out of rope slings and dangled 4,000ft above the snowfields at the base of the precipice....
...All hands were needed on deck to bring up the anchor, take in fenders, attach rope halyards to the three sails, then rig them....
...I was struck by its flimsiness: thin wooden walls were held up by spindly ropes, while bored-looking technical assistants stared down from the rafters....
...little masterpiece of contemporary art, equally faithful to Voltaire’s mordant verdict on the human comedy, summons Blake’s inner Goya, depicting a victim of the Inquisition’s auto-da-fé swinging from a rope...
...Earlier Red Bull Extreme Sailing mainsheet trimmer Hans Peter Steinacher went overboard with a rope caught round his ankle....
...Abandoning overwrought pop for horn and organ-drenched Americana, it teams Elton with US country-rocker Leon Russell, a fellow piano man whose solo career peaked with 1972’s Tight Rope before fading into...
...Mr Donilon’s brother is the vice-president’s counsellor and his wife Cathy Russell chief of staff for Mr Biden’s wife....
...Mr Sharp had never intended to go into brewing, even though he spent much of his school and university holidays working at the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, where his father Russell had led a buy-out...
...Maybe – for there are many good stand-up comedians around, of whom two, Michael McIntyre (Comedy Roadshow, BBC1 Saturday) and Russell Brand (Russell Brand’s Ponderland, Channel 4 Friday), were performing...
...At the moment he is facing stiff competition on one side from older workers who already know the ropes. But in a few years he will be squeezed out on the other side....
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