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...The origins of modern facial prosthetics began around this time, with clinics set up by the artists Francis Derwent Wood in London (nicknamed the Tin Noses Shop) and Anna Coleman Ladd in Paris....
...Three other project managers — Balfour Beatty, Skanska and a joint venture between Bouygues and J Murphy & Sons — each oversee construction of different sections of the project....
...Reynolds’ lofty, stargazing “Francis Barber” (c1770), who was Samuel Johnson’s secretary, and Gainsborough’s nonchalantly easy “Ignatius Sancho” (1768), writer, composer, abolitionist, are classicised, noble...
...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini in London...
...This green tweed has a wonderful texture that keeps your interest and keeps you warm. drakes.com J Nismes-Delclou armagnac, £230.50 for 500ml I love Armagnac in the winter....
...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Luxembourg-based private equity firm Divergent Investments led PTO’s fundraising, making its first investment since it was set up last year by former derivatives trader Francis Bento....
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...“Owning shares in IT companies and property in Manhattan is not as sexy as owning a Premier League club,” says Francis....
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...When the actor John Alderton appeared in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1987, the playwright allegedly advised him to think of Vladimir and Estragon as two batsmen padded up and waiting to go on to...
...Job moves Deutsche Bank has hired Morgan Stanley dealmaker Samuel Kim as chair of mergers and acquisitions for the Asia-Pacific region, per Bloomberg....
...Like many of Samuel Beckett’s couples, Alice and Edgar seem trapped in a hellish space, mutually dependent in a way only they understand....
...But some of my proudest moments are all the artists we’ve cooked for over the years, including Francis Bacon, Cornelia Parker and Edmund de Waal....
...Francis Breedon: The inflation outlook remains highly uncertain....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...Today it focuses on preserving Miyake’s legacy and developing the design culture for a new generation. miyakeissey.org J is for JW AndersonBritish designer Jonathan Anderson has donated to Akt, an LGBTQ...
...It showcases the group of British artists that included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach with a treasure-trove of works — some well-known, some loaned from discreet private...
...The gallery lacks deep pockets: it has an endowment of only £3.5mn, compared with the $8.6bn of the trust behind the world’s richest museum, the J Paul Getty in Los Angeles....
...Which gets me back to Samuel Alito’s leaked draft ruling to abolish Roe vs Wade....
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive, insisted the prime minister had “made the right call”....
...The prose is whittled down, showing everything in relief and reminiscent of the stripped-down emotional specificity of the modernist novels of André Breton or Samuel Beckett....
...But gossip at work is essential, according to Dominique J Darmon....
...Best known for his explosive, unpredictable turn as Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) and for playing the compulsive, self-destructive Axel Freed in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler...
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