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...He sees the Golden Road as an early example of how cultural influence and soft power spread from “the Indosphere” to Eurasia, via monks, merchants, artists, astronomers and scientists, creating “an empire...
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Harris Conducts Harris, a delightful recording of the American composer Roy Harris conducting some of his own work, while writing my column....
...“Why would you want the B team when you still have the A team available?” asked Bobby Kaufmann, an Iowa state legislator who has endorsed Trump. “He changed Washington....
...My daughter wants to be the girl, Mabel – but Madame B steals the show for me....
...of Champagne, €1,200Dom Pérignon, a Benedictine monk from Hautvilliers in Champagne, perfected the “méthode champenoise” in 1697 and gifted the world a celebratory drink....
...For example, here’s the Class A vs Class B shares of News Corp, a business that, as previously mentioned, bears certain similarities to Waystar: In News Corp’s case, Class B (the white lines above) carry...
...If there is such a trade association as the Blouson Promotion Bureau, then it should erect a statue to Kendall Roy (played by Jeremy Strong) as he sported a seemingly limitless selection of blousons....
...In “Immolation” (1972), a naked woman, her body painted green, sits quietly amid saffron billows, evoking the photo of a Buddhist monk who has set himself alight....
...“Children are demanding,” the late E B White, author of such classics as Charlotte’s Web, told The Paris Review in 1969....
...I hope that I’m not like that,” he said of the domineering Logan Roy....
...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....
...The second volume of reinterpreted recordings from Blue Note’s back catalogue confirms both the depth and breadth of contemporary UK jazz, soul and R&B....
...Or as Ranjan Roy reflected back in 2014: When I started in 2002, we only had Bloomberg Messaging, which allowed users to simply static message each other within the Bloomberg ecosystem....
...It is mostly admired from afar — in his book England’s 100 Best Views, Simon Jenkins recommends you park up on the B-road west of Abbotsbury for the best panorama. Up close it is little known....
...Stanley Kubrick UK Stanley Kubrick enlisted his Barry Lyndon production designer Roy Walker to work on the sets for The Shining....
...The presence of a) The Lego Movie and b) horror is probably quite reassuring to fans of Warhammer 40,000, which is a) also based around little plastic models and b) horrifying (ed. note: the Lego movies...
...And FT columnist Nilanjana Roy talks about what makes a great book club....
...Theo Croker continues his push into the major league with a jazz-infused blend of R&B and a change of tack....
...Stay: Bruma is the Valle de Guadalupe’s finest – a contemporary winery with slick tasting rooms, an eight-room boutique B&B at the edge of the vineyards, and a smattering of guest villas overlooking their...
...In future, Jones plans to move his hoard of Bloomsbury books to Rodmell, the village in East Sussex where Virginia Woolf lived in Monk’s House....
...De Bolla has been buying PYCM wines from his second-ever vintage, from Colin-Morey’s UK importer A&B Vintners....
...Vocalist Loria gave a shy R&B rendition of “Forever Mine”, from Sparks’s current release....
...Gerontologist Emi Kiyota, who has advised on building communities for retired monks in Bhutan, spoke about the need to create homes for seniors without segregating them....
...Visible from far across the flat pampas, Fitz Roy projects sheer power....
...parts of the Himalayan kingdom, the valley is home to the 17th-century Punakha Dzong, the most splendid of the Himalayan kingdom’s fortified monasteries (and the winter home to its largest community of monks...
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