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...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
...CIA director William J Burns said in a statement that Powell “offered as fine a model of leadership as I have ever known”. Additional reporting by Katrina Manson...
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...And since the first volley of temporary exhibitions includes retrospectives of Betye Saar and William Pope.L, plus “Sur Moderno”, a survey of South American abstraction, MoMA has earned itself a full-throated...
...There he was taught by former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius and became close to another teacher, the Hungarian émigré architect Marcel Breuer....
...“I come out in both camps,” Claire Williams, deputy team principal of the Williams F1 team, tells the Financial Times....
...There is something comic — whether intentional or not is never quite clear — about the way Kaag plays L’homme sérieux while fuming about the numbers of people in a cable car, or looking up pensively as he...
...“I have read Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams in French. I have discovered sexuality in French books. I have discovered the prohibition of sex with Arabic.”...
...Founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, the school offered an ideology that could weave together the disunited threads of modernity....
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...But the attitude of “Blücher” was certainly preferable to the crowd of French tourists outside Napoleon’s camp, who kept bellowing “vive l’empereur!”...
...But there are already dozens of books to learn from, including Jeffrey Young and William Simon’s iCon (2005), Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz (2009) and Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography, not...
...The satirist H L Mencken once said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Like all good wit, it contained a truth....
...He couldn’t animate the cardboard US President William Howard Taft, for instance, or breathe intelligence into Mrs Richard Howe....
...… 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...
...Before that his wrangly Republicanism antagonised both Nixon and George Bush Sr, who allegedly elbowed him off the vice-presidency ticket with Reagan....
...After the end of James’s tenure at the Observer in 1982, other poets and novelists – Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Hugo Williams, Peter Ackroyd, Adam Mars-Jones – began to be employed as TV critics....
...William Silber’s forthcoming biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker sits alongside Walter Isaacson’s life of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs....
...And within two days the hostages were no longer a media conversation anywhere other than in Walter Cronkite’s running tally of their days in captivity....
...There’s religious iconography on the walls, but also a striking pop-art portrait of Robbie Williams, a former guest. Eclectic hardly begins to describe it....
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
...iPad options: historic cover-ups It can be hard to be a bibliophile in a digital age, writes Olivia Williams....
..., William Barnet, III, Frank Bramble, Sr., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles Gifford....
...The final show, William Yang: Life Lines showcases two works by the Australian photographer, specially created for The China Project – a large collage of family portraits that is interwoven with images of...
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