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...John Gapper’s interesting article about copyright (“Mickey Mouse should help others to escape copyright”, Opinion, January 6) reminded me of an occasion in the late 1990s when the spirit of Marilyn Monroe...
...Entire small cities and towns became significantly poorer when major manufacturing plants closed, union jobs were lost forever and cheaper prices at Walmart did not compensate for the loss....
...(West Coast branch)....
...The exhibition includes signed serigraphs featuring images of Marilyn Monroe, as well as the colourful typographic experiments for which Indiana is best known. 21 March to 20 April, hauserwirth.com Bella...
...John Smedley took off in the 1950s as it grew a legion of notable fans, including Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, who both wore the label’s Catkin roll-neck sweaters; Sean Connery, who wore its blue polo...
...Former boss Kerry Killinger had gone big on subprime to build what he called “the Wal-Mart of banking”, and was pushed out by investors who didn’t like a rescue refinancing led by TPG Capital....
...A selection of those images are on show in West Sussex as part of “To Know About Women: The Photography of Eve Arnold”, a retrospective that opened this month at Newlands House Gallery in Petworth....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: West Lothian question for Marilyn Monroe’s lawyer / From Ian Peter MacDonald, Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire, UK...
...Warhol’s superstars, including the soup cans and “Gold Marilyn Monroe”, occupy galleries upstairs, but pause for a moment on the way out for a mind-altering double-height field of pink cow heads staring...
...Central Park South and its predecessor, 15 Central Park West....
...Many were already at historically low inventory levels after rising interest rates led some to slim down their safety stock, noted Brian Pacula, a supply chain expert at consultancy West Monroe....
...“I think the partnership model has sailed,” said Kevin McCarty, co-founder of the digital consultancy West Monroe who earlier in his career was a senior manager at Arthur Andersen’s business consulting practice...
...The fighting caps a year of mounting Israeli-Palestinian tensions, with Israeli forces conducting near-nightly raids in the occupied West Bank in the wake of attacks by Palestinians on Israelis, and Israel...
...My personal style signifier is my day-to-day uniform of T-shirts in indigo and black by Filth Mart and Velva Sheen, a pair of jeans, and custom-made “roper” boots by Ranch Road....
...Food poverty campaigners — most prominently Jack Monroe — have argued that the price of these basics has risen much faster than the general rate of inflation....
...Gaujacq said that while there was a market for Pop Mart’s toys outside China, it was hard to tell how far a growth model based on spurring a consumer trend could fuel the company’s expansion in the west....
...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...“In some years, we did report hedging losses,” Monroe said. Southwest trades contracts linked to West Texas Intermediate or Brent crude oil as a proxy for jet fuel....
...Since then, the company has struck deals with groups including Pretium Partners, Adams Street and Monroe Capital....
...This is the sort of hyperbole to which we have become accustomed in the Putin era. Yet the religion-inflected tensions between Russia and the west are real....
...His whole life, he said he played for the Celtics, never for the city of Boston. When he retired, he moved immediately to the West Coast....
...A military junta has seized power in Mali, where a homegrown Tuareg rebellion continues and both Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, a consortium of al-Qaeda-linked groups, and Islamic State in the Greater...
...They were and are extremely supportive of her ambitions. She was drawing and painting from a young age (portraits of stars like Jimi Hendrix or Marilyn Monroe, she groans)....
...in what is happening in the west”....
...Kaja Kallas said the west had already tolerated three Russian land-grabs in Georgia in 2008 and the Crimean peninsula and part of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine in 2014 and was at risk of repeating...
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