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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...“Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”, an exhortation to action....
...Hendrix’s outstretched hands summon the flames towards him as if conducting a spiritual ritual, a fitting image for a performer who generated an almost religious fervour among fans....
...This track always summons the spirit of Madonna’s 1989 classic “Express Yourself”, but Gaga has achieved her own (blonde) ambition: merging glamour and grotesquerie....
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...On his way back from a trip to the West Coast this week, Joe Biden made a stop in front of solar panels and a giant windmill in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to make the best pitch he could summon...
...It’s a romp. ★★★★☆ In contrast, the Christmas special of Ghosts can summon up no more than the odd wan smile, despite the combined talents of the Horrible Histories team....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...The disease is still raging, but the economy is showing signs of life — perhaps not a “V” shaped recovery, but not an “L” either — and unemployment has returned to single digits....
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
...The energy transition strategy update in March is key to becoming more positive on the stock, absent a V-shaped recovery for their O&G customers. Glaring value?...
...The definition of attending school “regularly” was clarified in 2017 in the case of Isle of Wight Council v Platt....
...Its president, Antonio Tajani, celebrated how his institution had managed to get the tech chief to Brussels after numerous failed “summons” from UK MPs for Mr Zuckerberg to do the same in Britain....
...Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne’s most famous creation, summons a memory almost too distant to pin down of a lazy afternoon beside a river in Staffordshire, tossing twigs off a bridge and waiting for the current...
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...Leaders of the conservative revival adored her because she could summon up armies that they, from their salons and think-tanks, could not....
...The first half shows Norris at his best, peppered with witty one-liners and underscored by a poignant sense of loss, the friends mourning Frankie, themselves and a childhood suddenly ended. E.V....
...But this is far from a one-woman show: Kent’s fine ensemble production (first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre last October) summons the hopes and tacky realities of a vaudeville circuit on the wane and...
...drone deliveries were not works of science fiction, a team of scientists at the US Navy’s research centre were working on a $100m project to allow the US Marine Corp to use a specially designed app to summon...
...In one, thick, black, lightless oblongs of ink float like steps leading to nowhere in a hopscotch of finer lines to summon the skeleton of an ideal piazza....
...Entwining symbols such as parking machines, toasters, zebra crossings and My Little Pony, they summon London’s idiosyncratic chaos and are on sale for £3,000-£4,000 each. Find of the fair?...
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