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...Soho is also a home for London’s LBGTQ+ community, centred around Old Compton Street....
...Instead, he spends his mornings reading the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett, and his afternoons perfecting extravagant culinary creations: canelés bordelaises, Molotov pudding....
...His real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, a Jewish-American from Minnesota in the Midwest, not the southern Dust Bowl nor the streets of London or New York. The real man remains largely an enigma....
...The interesting review by Bronwen Maddox of John Preston’s book on Robert Maxwell (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, February 6) reminded me of an incident in 1978 that throws further light on Maxwell’s character...
...A film such as Steve Jobs brought sheen, but a shrewd eye for untold stories greenlit Straight Outta Compton, a crowd-pleasing biopic of rappers NWA....
...It was then altered in the 1730s and graced inside with plaster ceilings by Robert Adam and furniture by Thomas Chippendale, as good as it has ever got....
...Robert Piguet Parfums Fracas, £155 for 100ml EDP. Dr Frances Prenna Jones Enhance primer, £57 for 30ml....
...Tea fever gripped Europe in the late 17th century but supplies remained scarce and plant hunters, notably the Scotsman Robert Fortune, were commissioned to find more of the stuff....
...The house’s current owners, with designer Tania Compton, have revived it....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington Letter in response to this article: Shunning Huawei will have consequences for research / From Richard G Compton and Peter P Edwards, University of Oxford...
...Alongside these contemporary authors, we find a collection of island-loving literary figures from the past, foremost among them DH Lawrence and Compton Mackenzie....
...Mass-produced pieces by designers as innovative as Terence Conran, Enid Marx, Lucienne Day and Robert Welch transformed householders’ ideas about the “look” they wanted for their domestic interiors....
...A one-metre-long, handmade stainless steel version of the toast rack is on display at the Britain in the Fifties exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, until October 2....
...Also upping the hotel-dining ante in 2017: Soho House’s The Ned on Poultry, and Robert De Niro’s The Wellington in Covent Garden. 45 Curtain Road EC2 Luca “Britalian” is the latest entry in the lexicon...
...The auditorium of the Compton Cinema Club, London’s first private members’ club showing adult films, which opened in 1960, is now the kitchen of restaurant Balans....
...Compton Verney, with its Robert Adam house and Capability Brown gardens, is the perfect backdrop for the story of the 18th century co-opting the plays as subjects for a new history painting, part of the...
...James Compton, chief revenue officer, told analysts on a conference call that revenue from energy company clients was down 35 per cent year-on-year and that this factor alone accounted for a percentage point...
...Venkatakrishnan as head of risk from JPMorgan to replace Robert Le Blanc, who will move to an advisory role after 12 years in the job....
...Old Compton Street now has G-A-Y bar and two gay pubs, while the area’s only lesbian bar closed in 2014....
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...But the curious story of the tax, explored recently by Wallace Oates and Robert Schwab in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, holds lessons for us today....
...During the second world war, the Frith Street premises were bombed and the business was relocated to Old Compton Street....
...Jim Compton, chief revenue officer, said the airline expected capacity to fall by between 0.25 per cent and 0.75 per cent over the year....
...In 1965, Compton Mackenzie, author of comic novel Whisky Galore, joined with architectural historian Colin McWilliam and playwright Robert Kemp to lead successful opposition to an inner-city motorway that...
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