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...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...Since 2019, in line with current winemaking fashion, it has also been experimenting with ageing wine in terracotta pots imported from Tuscany....
...But then she materialised with the superb “A&W”, a trip-hoppy torch song from her latest album....
...The muqawama w’all muman’aah narrative . . . Gideon RachmanWhat’s that? Emile HokayemIt’s resistance and defiance, essentially....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...And a lot of conservatives, Trump brilliantly, but George W Bush understood this, too. The reason George W Bush beat Al Gore, we all know it, is the famous line in a public-opinion poll....
...Cherchez l’Orbán The European Commission is homing in on a new Russia sanctions package it hopes will garner member state approval this week, but once again Brussels is fearful Hungary may scupper any deal...
...L Line calls Tip for amateur tennis players: the quickest way to improve your game is just to call more of your opponent’s shots out. Sadly, this is also the quickest way to lose your opponents....
...It’s probably l’air du temps — catwalks, the streets and popular culture are full of mini skirts....
...“[W]e believe in America, in part because it helped produce someone like Colin Powell,” he said....
...Georges Braque’s “L’Oiseau volant vers son nid” is a small collage and gouache version of the Pompidou’s grand 1955 painting....
...Carola Long Daniel W Fletcher Reality TV helped cast the designer into the spotlight In 2019, Daniel W Fletcher took part in Netflix’s reality series Next in Fashion, competing against 17 other designers...
...For a deal of this size, we’d expect to see some sort of Pipe (private investment in public equity) transaction and the usual line-up of bulge bracket banks. But neither is present....
...The saga over Autostrade per l’Italia, Italy’s main toll road operator, has been going on for years....
...To begin with, on the opening tracks “K.G.L.W.” and “Automation”, they play a kind of folk-rock, with guitar melodies that are more memorable than the vocal lines....
...Perhaps alarmingly, and very much out of line with that rapid recovery in US stock markets, faith in the longed-for V has been ebbing....
...The gains trail those recorded under Barack Obama (71 per cent) and Bill Clinton (61 per cent), but eclipse Wall Street’s run under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush....
...The MacArthur Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation intend to issue another $125m and $100m in bonds, respectively, and the WK Kellogg and Andrew W Mellon foundations are discussing financing...
...There are classic “Still Life” line-ups of solemn vessels in restrained hues, bathed in light or shrouded in darkness; early experiments — a 1918 composition with pipe and sculpted head (a milliner’s prop...
...With Brazil’s central bank in line to ease policy next month, BNY Mellon says the country remains a high yielder, “with inflation-linked bonds’ real yields ranging from 66bp for the 2023 issue, up to 3.9...
...Another approach Republicans could take is to go past the neoliberalism to liberalism (with a small L), to Adam Smith....
...Or does a U, W — or dreaded L — shape loom instead? That is the question preoccupying many investors — particularly since the equity markets have recovered with a remarkable V shape....
...All this makes for a buying opportunity if one believes Mr Scharf can remove the regulatory overhang, revive top-line growth and bring the bank’s expense ratio from the current 65 per cent to below its historical...
...As lockdowns around the world begin to lift, many are wondering when employment numbers will start to follow suit — and what the recovery will look like, whether its V-, W- or L-shaped....
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