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...In 1999, with architects Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, they co-founded ETH Studio Basel, an institute of urban research that focused on the transformation of cities worldwide, and their practice continues...
...It has many of the elements that made the ultimate Wall Street book, Liar’s Poker, sparkle — rivalry, camaraderie, japes and high stakes — but sadly told without the style or irony of Michael Lewis....
...Truly like a well-made Alsace wine that sparkles. £28 Wine Poole of Warwick Langham, Corallian Classic Cuvée Extra Brut NV EnglandThe price is kept below £30 because winemaker Tommy Grimshaw wants his mother...
...Irakli Kikolashvili, general manager of Georgian brand Mach&Mach, which was founded in 2012, says that sales spiked 500 per cent in 2020 over 2019 as consumers looked for “sparkle and emotion”....
...Before: the faint whiff of greasepaint and proscenium even in the gifted gadabouts of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers....
...In the pretty village of Hautvilliers we nosed around the eerie Benedictine monastery where, in 1697, Dom Pérignon discovered how to make wine sparkle, according to popular legend....
...Subtleties were flattened out; Roger Daltrey’s voice has never been the most intimate of instruments, but he had to bellow even more than usual to be heard above everything else....
...The carbon dioxide in wines that sparkle may drive the alcohol into the bloodstream fast, and many of us have a Pavlovian reaction to the sound of the pop of a cork....
...The River Café kitchen is part of the restaurant – and who wouldn’t want to work with Ruth Rogers? Thames Wharf, Rainville Rd, London W6 (rivercafe.co.uk)...
...What a contemporary described as Powell’s “first grown-up affair” was with Nina Hamnett, an artist and model painted by Sickert, Augustus John and Roger Fry....
...I pass the magnificent Moët & Chandon complex, which occupies a whole block, peer through the gates of Pol Roger and catch a glimpse of Perrier-Jouët’s establishment across its courtyard....
...The lab-mined Diamond Foundry has already raised $100m in investment, and piqued the interest of environmental celebrity crusader Leonardo DiCaprio and a sparkle of fine jewellery houses....
...“She saw the sparkle in my eyes. My father believed her, and he believed in me.” The coach became a mentor, introducing her charge not just to tennis but also to poetry, science and classical music....
...With her privately owned company now valued at $3.5bn, thanks to a recent $200m stock-swap among investors, and a new chief executive, Roger Farah (formerly of Ralph Lauren), to co-pilot the brand’s future...
...For all you know, that £37 bottle of Mumm sitting under bright lights on the shelf at your local convenience store has been there for so long that the wine has long since lost its sparkle....
...Noël Coward sang here, Duke Ellington had a series of residencies and Ginger Rogers danced with Howard Hughes on its revolving dance floor....
...It is certainly the most surprising building in Paris since Rogers and Piano’s Centre Pompidou opened in 1977....
...This spread of rooms sparkles with new equipment and possibility. “We’ve sort of skipped the 20th century,” says David Saunders, before adding with a laugh, “This is where I get to play.”...
...Analysts at Panmure Gordon say Aim-quoted Fusionex will shortly launch a big data analytics product that “clearly sparkles”....
...“Roger, Rip-Off Squad.” A blare and dazzle of cop cars converge on the Georgia location. Handcuffs click on wrists....
...This qualification is dwarfed by the depth of Crane’s knowledge and the sparkle of his prose....
...All of the first quarter of my top 100 festive wines really sparkle....
...But the Gang of Six deal has reignited some belief that there could be a more ambitious solution, bringing a sparkle to the eyes of Washington’s fiscal hawks....
...Panerai, Bell & Ross, Ebel and Roger Dubuis....
...Christopher Luscombe’s production was a hit here two years ago and has lost none of its warmth and sparkle....
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