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...Wine Therapy 171 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012 Good for: Natural wine Not so good for: Traditionalists FYI: The store usually offers free tastings on Thursdays, 6pm — 8pm Wines: From $11 to $460...
...Among the avalanche of statements on Wednesday night, Putin described Kissinger as an “outstanding diplomat, a wise and far-sighted statesman”. What did Kissinger value?...
...There is lovely quiet work too from Priyanga Burford as Florence’s wise, besotted friend Helen and Hugh Ross as her long-suffering husband....
...And for all the unwarranted predictions that Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, would steal the limelight from the Queen, fashion-wise it could not have been further from the truth....
...“There’s certainly an improvement environment wise, we’ve had more money in our parks than we’ve ever had before.”...
...Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga are masters of their craft....
...Some justices, including conservatives Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, were more critical, especially towards the justice department, which was represented by Elizabeth Prelogar, the newly confirmed US...
...The new-build is distinguished by dry stone walls that blend into the rugged backdrop, but the showpiece is a ribbon window that snakes around the upper floor, capturing views of the surrounding mountains...
...“My inspiration always comes from nature, as well as historical jewels,” says London jeweller Ruth Tomlinson, who uses cast-in-place in her repertoire of techniques....
...Hall’s film, Passing, is somewhat more ambitious; based on the 1929 novella by Nella Larsen, it tells the story of two childhood friends, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga), who are reunited by...
...But Greig is too wise a writer to pitch a simple black and white stand-off....
...Some of Margaret Thatcher’s jewellery choices, including the former UK prime minister’s use of a stone bracelet and amethyst ring, have featured in the Netflix series The Crown....
...As the Duchess of Northumberland wrote in her diary in 1760: “Went home; voided a large stone. Tired to death . . . A bad supper. Miss Townshend drunk.”...
...Now, when you go into a Bulgari store, “there is a very immediate thread design-wise, which connects the categories together”, says Babin....
...In 1695 he consolidated his fortune by marrying Elizabeth Langley Rose, widow of Fulke Rose, one of Jamaica’s largest slave and plantation owners....
...It was also a wise investment, today worth many times its purchase price. Elsewhere hang works by US portrait-painter Elizabeth Peyton, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, and a piece by Max Ernst....
...It tells the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the real-life daughter of an African slave, and John Lindsay, a British naval officer....
...Martha was hanged and her husband was publicly crushed to death beneath a plank and stones....
...Darkin’s eight dancers workshopped the piece among the Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis and Alexander Ruth’s arena-like set, half-carpeted with turf and ringed with mud and twigs, seeks to replicate...
...A former marketing director at Microsoft and Coca-Cola, Sirin quit the corporate world to pursue “a new path”, rather like Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the novel Eat Pray Love....
...“But that’s wise. You should push the edges as far as you can creatively but you have to be accessible....
...John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award, Ruth Scurr’s experimental “act of scholarly imagination” brings to life the 17th-century...
...It is not my idea, but the great Elizabeth David’s, who gives the recipe for this former French favourite in her book French Provincial Cooking as Omelette à l’Oseille....
...As a designer, that can be highly liberating, but investment-wise it’s also extremely high risk.” Gone are the days when a designer was insulated from the business side of a brand....
...“Maybe we could have been sharper in working out that some developments in the banking sector could end in tears, but it’s easy to be wise after the event,” he says, pinning the bulk of the blame for the...
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