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...The signature Melograno scent is elegant and timeless and infused into its clay pomegranates....
...The grand slams are run separately and the International Tennis Federation, the world governing body, runs the Billie Jean King Cup and the Davis Cup....
...Unforgettable are the ethereal, mournful canvases in dripping, dilute pigments featuring black figures in eerie settings by Noah Davis, the leading painter of his generation when he died at 32 in 2015....
...(His own nickname, “The Bull”, was well earned and it made perfect sense to see him compete, years later, in Valencia’s Plaza de Toros in a Davis Cup tie.)...
...Davis believes he was the last head of McKinsey to know each individual partner; there are now 2,500....
...Originally, he enrolled to study mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin but later switched to art at the University of California, Davis....
...Feet of clay abound. The world-renowned novelist Stefan Zweig was a compulsive flasher....
...His own analysis suggests that the clay might have been baked using techniques from the Hungarian kingdom of György Soros....
...There are neither writers struggling for inspiration in William Trevor’s fiction nor artists labouring over lumps of clay....
...So they, for example, had a clay desk where you could express yourself through clay, and then allow someone else to express themselves in response through clay....
...During the civil war, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, devoted as much rhetoric to attacking the class pedigree of his Yankee opponents as he did to defending slavery....
...Compared with the other three more polished Grand Slams, the French Open can appear refreshingly anachronistic, with its intimate atmosphere and clay courts made from crushed red bricks, all tucked in next...
...Janan Ganesh is the FT’s political columnist ‘Approaching Ali’ by Davis Miller (WW Norton) is published in the UK on March 1....
...The last picture in the exhibition, “Figures with Doves”, recalls the Noucentisme of his early days, with clay-coloured nudes lounging in an earthly paradise....
...Jan Kodes, a Czechoslovakian clay courter by trade, went on to become champion....
...Runner-up Special Jury Prize: to the enjoyable, not-violent-at-all comedy-elegy from America’s Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis....
...… The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, by Clay Risen, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/$28 Risen, a New York Times editor, provides a gripping account of the passage of the 1964 Civil...
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...A study at the University of California at Davis, has proven that it is not possible to consistently taste the difference between non- mevushal and mevushal wine....
...1970s in the wake of the excesses of Bernie Cornfeld’s Investors Overseas Services and the collapse of the 1960s “gunslinger” generation of hedge fund managers, whose feet also turned out to be made of clay...
...No, not any of the recent and sublime encounters between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal but a Davis Cup match between Germany and the US that featured two giants of the game: Don Budge and Gottfried von...
...Those who are forecasting a Nadal victory include John Lloyd, Britain’s Davis Cup captain and a former Australian Open finalist....
...In fact he’s not sure whether he will ever play Davis Cup again. “In the future maybe I will miss Davis Cup,” he says....
...Since the hardback, Bolton has been promoted from subject to co-author along with Jonathan Davis, a columnist on FTfm....
...A former South African Davis Cup player, he emigrated to Israel in the 1960s, and from 1974 has helped to establish 14 tennis centres for children, whether Arab or Jew....
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