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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Her eclectic creations were inspired by museum antiquities and frequent trips to England, where she scoured antique shops and market stalls for 18th- and 19th-century pewter plates and chargers....
...She had a stall in the market so any job that I could get . . . ” He was only six when he first picked up a guitar and is largely self-taught....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...continues to be the fastest rising nation in world chess, and Tata Steel’s backing has been an influential factor along with the example set by the former world champion Vishy Anand. 2453 Nigel Short v...
...The head of V.Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for vessels passing through the Black Sea, off Ukraine’s coast, a region with global importance for food supplies...
...Down a nondescript driveway in Jaipur’s Old City, past the tooting rickshaws and jumble of roadside stalls, Krishna Choudhary is producing artefact after artefact, as if from his sleeves, from inside his...
...In the UK on Monday, the government set out its stall for leading “the way in harnessing the potential of blockchain and supporting the development of a world-best crypto ecosystem”....
...And I’ve spoken to people who would normally kind of push carts filled with textile or sugar or fruit, you know, between stalls and between merchants....
...Putin, who took the Sputnik V vaccine in the spring, said even some of his close friends had been reluctant to get inoculated....
...Dowden, for his part, has set his stall out for diversity, but with a twist. More than a quarter of his department’s appointments have been from ethnic minorities....
...The FT Editorial Board said global recovery would stall without fairer distribution of vaccines....
...The people who put together the hotel have the Parisian eye, which can alight on the tiniest blemish in a room: a woman wearing the wrong colours, a tasteless bag sticking out from a stall, a foreigner talking...
...While making money on the weekend market stalls of Petticoat Lane and Ridley Road, selling button-down shirts and flares of his own design, Hitchins spent his weeks dancing, teaching flamenco and fashioning...
...For some, the word “craft” might bring about visions of a dusty village hall with stalls selling knitted doilies and a requirement to rummage....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...Traders fear that the US economic recovery will stall without further support....
...“With no sign that the resurgence in virus cases has been stamped out, there is a clear risk that it stalls or even goes into reverse.”...
...The UK’s economic recovery appeared to stall in the final week of May, with consumers reluctant to spend, despite the easing of lockdown measures....
Union boss pushes for changes to trade deal with Canada and Mexico
...This will also stall the Bakken’s output recovery, said Woodmac analyst Alex Beeker....
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
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