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...Chief financial officer Peter Crawford told analysts that there had been “a continued and substantial deceleration in the daily pace of cash outflows” in June....
...Rick Owens was thinking about performance in his clothes — both actual rock stars, and how he is perceived, and perhaps expected to act, as a designer....
...Even Rick Crawford, who represents Arkansas’ first district in the US House of Representatives, is a critic of Chinese investment....
...Sorrell, 72, stepped down as chairman of CIF this year, with Rick Haythornthwaite taking over as chair and John Kampfner staying on as chief executive....
...Ricks and co-editor McCue offer eight pages of enlightening commentary to each page of Eliot’s poems, some of which are collected here for the first time....
...Rick James had publicly accused the channel of racism when it failed to play “Superfreak”; and David Bowie challenged an MTV VJ in an interview, asking him: “Why are there practically no blacks on the network...
...But, when required, he could turn out, as a dorm-room jester, lustily bawdy verse for his college mates (a rich sample, Inventions of the March Hare, was assembled by Christopher Ricks in 1995)....
...Others discussed the growing sophistication of second-generation consumers who seek the more avant-garde (are you listening, Rick Owens?)....
...Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive biography of TS Eliot’s early years anatomises the poet’s early...
...As they grew older, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were reduced to the grotesquerie of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
...Sarah Rutson, buying director at US department store Lane Crawford, is also a fan. “I always wear black leather shorts in the winter,” she says....
...On Pedder will stock the crème de la crème of fashion’s avant-garde, including Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Haider Ackermann and Rick Owens....
...The products are still novel to many investors, says Rick Genoni, Vanguard’s head of ETF product development....
...“Obama is typically Hyde Park,” says Rick Perlstein, the liberal historian who also lives in the neighbourhood....
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
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