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...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...A touch of drama The mood for winter coats is larger than life — think Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, Ivana Trump in her heyday or the original TV series of Dynasty. No shrinking violets here....
...“We are far less optimistic about a V-shaped recovery than some people are saying. For developing countries, the worst is yet to come.”...
...Light can only move 30cm in a nanosecond, which means that today’s “masters of the universe” — to borrow Tom Wolfe’s phrase — are bumping up against the physical limitations imposed by the speed of light...
...Plus displays on patent infringement, experimental first world war dazzle camouflage and an anechoic chamber from “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe....
...(FT) RIP Tom Wolfe The pioneer of “New Journalism” he passed away on Monday at 88....
...In 2008 I flew to Moscow for the Chelsea v Manchester United Champions League final. Anyone holding a match ticket could enter Russia without a visa, which was a first in modern history....
...Asked if the smaller museums should regard themselves as underdogs, particularly after last year’s victory for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Mr Deuchar said: “The V&A were amazed to have won....
...Alan Wolfe, the eminent political scientist, rated her among the two or three most important Americans of the latter half of the 20th century, even though “every idea she ever had was scatterbrained, dangerous...
...Paul Sankey of Wolfe Research calls E&Ps a “hope trade”....
...Trencherman, by Eben Venter, translated by Luke Stubbs, Scribe, RRP£12.99 Venter’s dystopian tale imagines South Africa in the aftermath of a nuclear accident....
...Its treasures include Wedgwood’s Portland Vase, the pinnacle of the 18th century potter’s art, as well as valuable paintings by George Stubbs and Reynolds....
...The following decade, the 1970s, was famously labelled the “Me” decade by Tom Wolfe. Nonsense, said others. It was the Thatcher-Reagan years....
...Clients, after years of feeling obliged to commission what Tom Wolfe called the “non-bourgeois worker-housing” aesthetic of the Bauhaus, welcomed decoration back....
...The most expensive item at the fair will undoubtedly be the “Portrait of a Gentleman on a Grey Hunter” by George Stubbs, once owned by the great American collector of British art, Paul Mellon, which Cotswolds...
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...The UK market faces other challenges, says Citigroup strategist Jonathan Stubbs. Perhaps the most important is the colossal fiscal deficit combined with political risk....
...The Jewish Museum’s ponderously titled new exhibition, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, might more aptly have been dubbed “Greenberg v....
...And there’s Johnson v. Johnson, her story of the court battle surrounding J. Seward Johnson’s $500m will, and her novel The Straw Man....
...Many of these are levered in from popular historians such as C.V. Wedgwood. The blurb describes Stubbs as “one of the most remarkable biographers to have emerged in recent years”....
...The V&A offers 60 superb drawings from British collections, many rarely, or never, seen in public....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
...There were the usual grumbles about those who had been left out of the running - among them V.S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds (Picador £16.99)....
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