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...It’s solid, with a Tonka toy aesthetic, fun to drive and has a range of 406 miles (WLTP) if you opt for the single-motor long-range model over the Performance version....
...The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin) Plot twist: Zadie Smith’s latest is her first historical novel, an evocation of Victorian London that draws on the real-life court case of a fraudster...
...The concept has its roots in the new urbanism in the US that brought forth the likes of the planned (some might say toy town) communities of Seaside and Celebration in Florida....
...Marc Filippino Colby Smith is the FT’s US economics editor. Thanks, Colby. Colby Smith Thank you....
...cooker plate breasts, washing machine drum as belly — for “In the Kitchen”, and Linder Sterling, in concert at Manchester’s Hacienda wearing a dress made of meat products, slit to reveal a dangling sex toy...
...Hammes, for instance, advised Bain Capital on its $6.6bn acquisition of Toys R Us in 2005 — and Kirkland was on hand again in 2017 when the toy retailer filed for bankruptcy, billing the struggling company...
...It was a predecessor of the infinitely more famous European design houses such as Etro and Paul Smith that also made colour the centrepiece of their offering....
...These were set up in 2019 as a shiny new toy for now-departed executive Marcelo Claure, to help “builders and innovators in Latin America develop enduring businesses that will create greater opportunity...
...From there, the car enthusiast went on to work on the likes of Toy Story and Disney Pixar’s Cars before heading up Hot Wheels design....
...“He made threats quietly so supervising women could not hear, employed toys to appear to be playing with me whilst using them to make up violent and macabre scenarios that he would relate to me....
...A gigantic Christmas tree, toys that come to life and all the sugar plums you can eat....
...Shortly after Christmas 2014, Wilding incorporated a Maltese company to splash out on the quintessential rich person’s toy: a superyacht....
German lawyer told Antiguan authorities that ships did not belong to Roman Abramovich
...The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva, and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music....
...Hunter Bell cotton Merritt dress, £120 Joolz by Martha Calvo glass and gemstone All Or Nothing necklace, £125, matchesfashion.com Nadine Ghosn gold, agate and sapphire The Bon Bon Block ring, $6,395 Paul Smith...
...Rory FH Smith looks at the phenomenon to find out what it is about the Mattel toys that still brings out the infant in us all....
...The yacht, which is built to carry helicopters and an “armada of water toys”, including a submarine and jet-skis, operates as a support vessel for megayachts....
...Now, it owns a range of insurance and reinsurance companies as well as a toy producer, a funeral products maker, a hotel developer and a manufacturer of custom trailers....
...I’m thinking primarily of the salt and pepper cruets inspired by Paul McCarthy’s sex-toy-shaped Tree. “I have stolen ashtrays all my life,” admits Iwan. “But we trust people....
...Garçon is a 67-metre explorer vessel designed to carry helicopters and an “armada of water toys”, and was built for Ukrainian billionaire Yuriy Kosiuk, who sold the so-called support yacht last year....
...Berkshire Hathaway to pay $12bn for Alleghany Warren Buffett has dipped into Berkshire Hathaway’s $150bn cash pile with a $12bn deal for Alleghany, an insurance-to-toy manufacturing conglomerate. 2....
...the Financial Times, explains that one of the main goals of this division is to “create a positive brand impression of CS by financing the principals’ favourite business tools (business jet) and luxury toys...
...Tails about the size of an inadequate langoustine with the texture and appeal of a worn-out sex toy....
...Lulu Smith is our producer. Special shoutout to the two of them this week. Molly Nugent is our contributing producer....
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