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...Letter in response to this article: Brown bent the fiscal rules, as all chancellors do / From Colin Evans, London W9, UK...
...Greenlaw — a poet, novelist and essayist who was recently appointed poetry editor at Faber & Faber — has always had a scientific bent....
...How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Macmillan/Currency) From the Sydney Opera House to the UK’s HS2 rail line, “megaprojects...
...Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner draw on the former’s comprehensive studies of the fate of megaprojects — most of which run over time and over budget — in How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind...
...How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Macmillan/Currency) Stories of gigantic and...
...Unscripted (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams makes a worthy bid for Paramount founder Sumner Redstone to be considered Logan-worthy....
...Could he try and include spending on hospital or school infrastructure if it has a green bent inside this fold? Jim Pickard Yep. So there’s a couple of elements to this....
...At times, as with the aforementioned “Head of a young woman looking to the right” (1521-24), he is bent on nailing the reality of a human figure....
...Artist’s Choice has a philanthropic bent, with 15 per cent of a work’s hammer price, jointly paid by the artist/gallery and Sotheby’s, going to a charity of the artist’s choosing — something that Horowitz...
...By the late 1980s, as he rails against a society bent on seeing Aids as God’s punishment, his paintings take on a tub-thumping fury....
...Her prose’s sharp edge and rhythmic bent were emulated by Joan Didion, who passed them down to authors across the generations, from Bret Easton Ellis to Rachel Kushner and Emma Cline....
...Aftermath by Rachel Cusk is a personal narrative of the author’s uncoupling, the pain inflicted and endured when “the fine mesh of life is torn”....
...The Envious Siblings won’t be to every young person’s taste, but those of a darker bent may find it grotesquely appealing, like a jack-o’-lantern that’s just started to rot....
...Yet ultimately the lunatic tresses suggest the painter as a mad professor, bent on his own path of discovery and heedless of naysayers....
...(FT) How New Orleans bent the coronavirus curve The city had been on course for one of worst outbreaks in the US until it focused on deprived communities by switching quickly from a drive-through testing...
...with a handwoven Ikat on the other, this limited-edition design is inspired by the Turkish cathedral. heritagegeneve.com Amble hanging seat by Tom Raffield, £1,975 Handmade from solid ash, this steam-bent...
...But her entire shimmering oeuvre can be read as a resounding victory over a world bent on banning women from studio, gallery and museum....
...Bent on challenging the Medici as the quattrocento’s most innovative connoisseurs, they gave Piero the liberty to push his art beyond the bounds of anything seen in the Florentine hothouse....
...I leave still uncertain how to square the luminous, unruffled personality I met with the artist-cum-analyst bent on foraging in the shadow side of our psyche....
...An omnipotent but vulnerable chief executive is courted by competing lieutenants bent on keeping or gaining the power and perks that come with the boss’s favour....
...Last year was a good one for art with a feminist bent — and not all of it by women. Two examples stand out. The first was Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s TV series Killing Eve ....
...It’s the same with Rachel Whiteread and Roni Horn — her glass sculptures look tranquil but they weigh a ton.”...
...The massive cubes would have created solid where there should have been air, negative space like a Rachel Whiteread sculpture, with paper instead of concrete....
...ideas about what constitutes wellbeing, the Wellcome show spans a transformation in ideas, science and the popular imagination; it leavens architecture and urbanism with artworks from Andreas Gursky to Rachel...
...Labour’s Jack Dromey and the Tories’ Rachel Maclean encouraged 14 colleagues to jump on the “Save GKN” bandwagon....
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