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...First and foremost, it was a long overdue victory for a female director — Jane Campion is the only other to have won before, and even then she had to split her win for The Piano with Chen Kaige for Farewell...
...Fruit and fish were two of Jane’s obsessions (and titles of two of her books) and this conjunction would surprise few of her readers....
...Veronica Iommi, the European bank general counsel and head of public policy in Europe for BNY Mellon, replaces Jane Lowe who steps down after four years as secretary-general of the trade body....
...Models wore biker boots collapsed at the sides or a velvet Mary Jane. Etro’s punked-up version of this most romantic of houses was to give it an “urban edge” in “upscale materials”....
...Brussels-based Ann Veronica Janssens (b 1956) is clearly in Irwin territory when she speaks of our perception of time being transformed by her mist installations, but the influence doesn’t need to be conscious...
...It is beautifully done, with the expensively achieved austerity typical of this decade, and I detect hints of hipster influence in the monastic hand-woven blankets by Teixidors, the plain-Jane Aesop bath...
...Veronica Augustsson, chief executive of Cinnober, a Swedish trading software company that monitors many of the world’s largest exchanges, said it was hard to understand the US authorities’ actions....
...Ukip’s parliamentary candidate in Rotherham is Jane Collins, a miner’s daughter from a Labour family who is already MEP for the wider region....
...James’s greatest passions: the detective novel and the work of Jane Austen....
...Veronica Lemon, who taught Greek at my school, was hugely inspirational. Jane Mellanby, my tutor at St Hilda’s, said it would be a hoot if I was a scientist as I’d come up through classics and maths....
...Rossetti, by contrast, led the pre-Raphaelites – painstaking naturalists and terrific sensualists who also, paradoxically, depended on historical inspiration: Rossetti’s cloistered medieval heroine “Veronica...
...The result was a carpet of plants like purple selfheal and veronica; bright blue germander speedwell; yellow cowslip, autumn hawkbit and creeping buttercup; white clover; ribwort plantain, with its black...
...The cabinet was surrounded at the opening by an avid crowd listening to the curator, Jane Perry, who has travelled to museums all over the world to inspect outstanding examples....
...At the opposite extreme of biographies of the heart is Veronica Buckley’s Madame de Maintenon....
...Lucilla Andrews is one of those authors about whom the Romantic Novelists’ Association “feels warm and fuzzy” (Jane Austen is another)....
...Joel Schumacher’s US/Ireland 2003 movie Veronica Guerin has Cate Blanchett re-creating the Irish crime reporter whose revelations about Dublin drug barons convinced them that she must be murdered....
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