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...This self-titled album starts with the declamatory brass of “Martini Sweet” supported by a bustle of back beats and testy double bass, and continues with the spiritual “Koko-v-Dank” unfolding over a two-chord...
...“We’re knocking on Howard Schultz’s front door and he’s scared. He doesn’t want to concede it.”...
...There was also a V-shaped neck pillow and a sort of snake-like one that reminded me of something I used during the latter stages of pregnancy....
...Street Fighter V Champion Edition for PlayStation 4, £24, amazon.co.uk...
...But while I was working at the Georges V in Paris, I asked a customer if I could make him a Manhattan my way....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...Now, can you please get me a martini?”...
...I much appreciated this op-ed by Richard V. Spencer, the US navy secretary who was fired last Sunday for trying to shield the US system of military justice from Trump’s interference....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...(FT) ‘Just Don’t’That was the message from Democrats to the former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz, who is flirting with the idea of a run at the presidency in 2020....
...What we’re reading There’s money in moderation It’s easy to scoff at “activated coal martinis” or a “pious piña colada” but bars, mixologists and supermarkets have embraced the no-alcohol trend....
...For example, he cut across the usual competitor lines between external law firms in the HP v Oracle case....
...Since its renovation nearly a decade ago, the 300-seat Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macau’s Unesco-recognised historic centre has regained much of its lapsed glory....
...A lunch true to the spirit of the show would involve us downing several martinis before staggering back to our respective offices for a nap....
...Christina Martini left her role as senior shoe designer for Balenciaga in order to launch Ancient Greek Sandals in 2011....
...But in 1989, an advertisement for Martini featured a red Roberts radio in the background....
...But CCD, run by entrepreneur V.G....
...There are a few mementos of his BP career – a cartoon of him wielding a gun next to a meek Vladimir Putin offering a martini, done in the happier days of the Russian joint venture TNK-BP....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...The house champagne, from grower Jacques Copinet, is excellent while the martini, served in a V-shaped glass resting on another glass full of ice cubes, was described to me by a cosmopolitan Hong Kong friend...
...That is, Target Corp v. Pershing Square....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...This is exceeded by the 640 calories in the “power” version of Matcha Green Tea Blast at Jamba Juice, a franchise chasing Howard Schultz’s caffeinated footsteps....
...This battle for authenticity has more twists than the peel in your martini....
...Had Howard Schultz (who bought out Starbucks from his former employers in 1987) not existed, Seattle would have had to invent him....
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