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...Fox’s Marlow is wonderfully funny: a quivering jelly in polite conversation with real Kate; a pouting peacock with Kate the “barmaid”....
...When Joe Biden was growing up, he wanted to add “ski” to the end of his name to fit in with the ethnic vibe in his Pennsylvanian hometown....
...From the peacock-blue tiles of the stair hall (a stuffed peacock perches on the mezzanine to amplify the colour) to the gold underneath the stairs and the delicate monochrome mosaic floors, this is an introduction...
...Three recent books — Richard V Reeves’ Of Boys and Men, Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America and Joris Luyendijk’s Dutch book De zeven vinkjes (“The Seven Ticks”) — trace the...
...Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered. Moscow would risk a devastating nuclear retaliatory strike by the US....
...in the administrations of presidents ranging from Ronald Reagan to George HW Bush and finally George W Bush — but who would cross party lines to endorse the Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe...
...V Reeves at Brookings Institution....
...Darren Waterston’s ‘Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined’ at the V&A January 25-May 3; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories...
...Adam Low film director Akram Khandancer and choreographer Ayelet Waldmanwriter Augustus Casely-HayfordDirector V&A East Prof Carl GombrichLondon Interdisciplinary School Caryl Churchillplaywright Cate...
...India, which passed 5m cases, will buy 100m doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine candidate. Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment reduced hospitalisations....
...Richard Caborn, former sports minister, as a way to reopen the Premier League....
...Joe Miller in Frankfurt 72....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...Director Joe Hill-Gibbins, to make sure we get the point, opens his otherwise lean-trimmed 100-minute version with part of this soliloquy (then reprises it in its proper place)....
...Democrats have already savoured speeches from their party’s most talented orators – Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden – who set a high bar....
...He once said he would rather have been born as Joe Bloggs. “Given the choice, I would rather not have been born wealthy, but I never think of giving it up. I can’t sell....
...This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, by Jerry Brotton, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 384 Pages Joe Moshenska is a lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge....
...For a shilling, anyone could enjoy an evening of illicit liaisons or peacock displays of the latest silks....
...“Delfi AS v Estonia” is a dispute about how closely websites need to police comments and whether they should have to predict when a story will attract defamatory posts....
...David Richards, chief executive, preferred his home steel city to Silicon Valley for unsentimental reasons....
...It is remarkable to remember that only a year ago, when Barack Obama came out in favour of gay marriage, it seemed like he had been bounced into the position by unscripted comments from his deputy, Joe Biden...
...In the event, the scores of wine writers Oz Clarke, Matthew Jukes, Will Lyons, Peter Richards MW, Anthony Rose, Michael Schuster and Joe Wadsack were even closer to those of the trade team of five Masters...
...Installed in Azam’s country estate, their lengthy conversations soon turn into a peacock display, masking a heady level of sexual and intellectual competition....
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
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