Hints and tips:
...Readers whose particular interest is Monet the gardener will find even more about his horticultural art in Vivian Russell’s excellent book Monet’s Garden, republished in 2016....
...“One man complained that if his wife came to the viewing gallery and saw him talking to attractive women, he’d be in trouble when he got home,” Michie said....
...“Not Sotheby’s, not the dealer, not us, not Vivian Barnett, who wrote the catalogue raisonné. It’s not clear that it was stolen. It went through public auction.”...
...His wife, Vivian, is a college professor who teaches art history. From the outside they look like the perfect African-American family, the Obamas of LA. But beneath the surface there are cracks....
...Vivian Nwakah, Medsaf’s founder, says the company has benefited from the extra demand during the coronavirus pandemic....
...The camera, a 1960s Shanghai-manufactured Seagull, is a replica of the twin-lens periscope camera used by Chicago-based Vivian Maier, who evidently – like me – found satisfaction in simply pressing the shutter...
...Televised comments by the minister of foreign affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, will have made some expats question their welcome: “The only reason we have foreigners here is to give an extra wind in our sails...
...In particular, I will be keeping an eye out for Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet — a fictionalisation of the death of Shakespeare’s young son, probably from bubonic plague, and its impact on his wife Agnes (Anne...
...portrayal of Vivian Maier, a quiet and self-effacing nanny who has been posthumously recognised as a remarkable and prolific street photographer....
...The 1909 portrait of his wife cradling a bowl of apples pays direct homage to the master, as do the still lifes of 1910 with their white jugs and bowls of fruit....
...The best was a tribute to her dead parents (her mother was Johnny Cash’s first wife, Vivian Distin), sung with genuine grace rather than showbiz schmaltz....
...Rudd, who has a wife, Lucy, and three grown-up children at home, had to sew folds into his long johns to keep them up, but was more concerned by a “cold injury”....
...Denise Vittone, whose brother Andrea Vittone died with his wife and her two children, said: “I don’t have faith in the state any more.”...
...He had the good fortune of becoming a favourite of Beppe Grillo, the brash comedian who founded Five Star....
...I see no signs that Ms Le Pen, Mr Grillo or Mr Maio are any more serious than Mr Tsipras....
...He and his wife have filed suit against GSK in US courts on racketeering charges....
...Sir, Vivian Lewis’s letter (January 26) on female emeritus professors reminded me of a dear friend, the wife of Alistair Grant, a professor emeritus at the Royal College of Art (both sadly long deceased)...
...He has four children, two with his second wife Kirsten, who is German. In the 2000s, he twice had to remortgage his house in Kent....
...Brad Pitt was reportedly banned from China after his 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet, although the ban appeared to have been lifted by 2014, when he visited the country with his wife, Angelina Jolie....
...Yet for the first two years after moving to the west coast, Pete and his wife Kara had to live in a Winnebago motor home in Google’s car park....
...“Dario Fo was not only a free man, he was the incarnation of freedom,” Mr Grillo wrote in a tribute on his blog....
...It was around this time that he met his Singaporean wife, Vivian Cheung. She became his business partner and the couple took joint control of the company, incorporating it as Titan Entertainment Group....
...Instead he and Vivian, his wife of more than 50 years, travelled the world and enjoyed their grandchildren. Three of them — triplets — are now at MIT....
...Some have been known for all the wrong reasons: one serving president’s chef was murdered with a hunting rifle by his estranged Italian wife....
...Fo, a playwright, is also a director, singer, painter, political campaigner; Roberto Benigni, director, actor, comedian and promoter everywhere of Dante’s Divine Comedy; and Beppe Grillo, comedian, blogger...
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