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...“I’ve been involved with the Young Fellows Ball at The Frick over the years – curating guest lists, working with fashion and spirits sponsors – and it’s one of the few black-tie galas left,” says the 41-...
...More even than the fair-weather tennis players, dressed in white and sunburned, lobbing balls on the many open-air courts scattered around the city....
...“Kjeld said, ‘Make it even larger,’” says Timothy Ahrensbach, director of workplace and employee experience, of the Lego statue....
...This is someone who works at the FT, but they’re careful to stress: “when I was at a previous employer, they had a Christmas ball and I saw an individual urinating against the wall of the main floor and...
...LA winter spent reading F Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote, Titus’s new London exhibition Bourgeoisie in Bloom examines the old-world customs, social frictions and traditional glamour of the debutante ball...
...Chintzy, cheerful and accessible, glitter evokes disco balls and dancefloors, cabaret costumes and cheap children’s craft....
...It was a crisp September day in 2015 when Timothy Young arrived at Houten, an unremarkable Dutch commuter town, determined to collect an almost 400-year-old debt....
...And Robert is holding Nick Timothy and Julian Smith, although I think he probably does get some kudos for having sold Nadine Dorries early....
...At Timothy Taylor, an intensely blue tower — an exercise in deconstructing the colour — greets you at the entrance, while next door a massive orb in cadmium red, her largest sculpture to date, tops a three-ball...
...Rossi scrunched up his face like a ball of discarded paper when he spoke about his stepson and his biological father....
...He also kept a pet tortoise, Timothy. He marvelled that Providence should have granted such long life to a creature that spent two-thirds of its time asleep....
...Meanwhile, it turned out that Timothy the family tortoise, who died in 2004 at the age of 160, was “actually a female”....
...(FT) Dropping the ball After some high-profile successes, sports Spacs are finding fewer fans. Is the drop-off in activity a sign of trouble or an inevitable reaction to piping-hot markets?...
...Timothy Leary, co-author of The Psychedelic Experience and a somewhat messianic LSD activist, is called a “lunatic” and “manifestation . . . of insanity”. And then there’s Charles Manson....
...Much like the polls, the Vix is a foggy crystal ball at best. For investors unperturbed by a little risk, that’s the whole point....
...The ball may have to be punted back to Europe’s leaders to see if they can do any better....
...It’s time to get out the crystal ball again. Last year, in “Brexit predictions for 2018”, I got some things right and some things wrong....
...Then along came Mr Trump, who took a wrecking ball to these British assumptions with his ruthless “America first” policies....
...Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies at Oxford, describes the referendum as “a Union debate with the addition of modern campaigning techniques”....
...By now we are eating the pudding, a small, sickly sweet brown ball. I throw him the question that has made other politicians stumble: “What’s the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done?”...
...I wore it to the Met Ball: I’m tall and like the masculine perspective on femininity....
...He’s not Machiavellian, he’s not someone who is scheming with 50 balls in the air. He’s a total perfectionist.”...
...I’d make them play ball....
...Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Mrs May suggested that the ball was in the EU’s court....
...That speech at London’s Lancaster House contained a prediction of economic catastrophe across the EU if the other 27 member states refused to play ball on the UK’s exit demands....
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