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...It’s a bit Walter Mitty, he points out....
...The owl is given voice via hidden speakers — his recorded dialogue at one point delivered by newsreader Walter Cronkite — and, as night falls, the effigy is set alight to frenzied cheers....
...Many of the German art school’s biggest names stayed here: founder Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer....
...He helped retail chief Angela Ahrendts overhaul its stores, from fixtures such as its tree-lined “Genius Groves”, down to simplifying product packaging....
...In “Postwick Grove” and “The Bass Rock”, John Sell Cotman carefully delineated Norfolk’s coastline, then used sponges and bread to soften the forms, leaving abstract blots and swaths of dense, rich blue....
...Mr Lee’s son Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, is fond of quoting the statement of former Intel chief executive Andy Grove: “Only the paranoid survive.”...
...Andy Grove The title of Andy Grove’s memoir says it all: Only the Paranoid Survive, writes Sarah Mishkin. It was a lesson the co-founder of Intel learned young....
...Polytunnels sprang up on the high-level walkways, and vegetable gardens were made in the groves between the trees....
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...harbour, it’s worth taking a detour to see “Your Black Horizon”, a transfixing installation by Olafur Eliasson, housed in an equally arresting pavilion by David Adjaye, surrounded by olive and cypress groves...
...The 630-page book by Walter Isaacson, simply titled Steve Jobs, gives new details on many other areas of the secretive man’s professional and personal life, including his health and his romances....
...“You don’t quite realise the badness of the world until you leave,” he said in an interview, of his youth in Webster Groves, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri....
...The 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart showcased model dwellings by major modernist architects including Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Bruno Taut....
...After the takeover, Browne remembers Sir Peter Walters, BP’s chairman and chief executive, saying to him: “I’m sure you’ll find a job elsewhere.”...
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