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...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....
...They could have been taken from the precise riverside spot where my classmates and I watched the sunrise after our senior prom, exactly 14 years before Wagner forces entered the city....
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...Henry V....
...“They were living in the atomic age, this new Americana-driven world. Anything was on the table.” This hyper-techno-optimism consumes Luckey’s personal life too....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...“If the money can whittle away at that . . . the net benefits could be very large indeed.”...
...Lush, a retired senior judge, has amassed a collection of more than 500 vintage and antique commemorative pieces....
...The BBC2 Master Game programme brought international chess to the living room. Success was contagious....
...Riyadh wants to overhaul the country’s economy by 2030 to reduce its reliance on oil, expand the private sector and whittle down subsidies that people have traditionally relied on....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...Men living without women tend to have poorer health, employment and social networks, notes Reeves....
...(Lilah laughs) It’s like Act V, Macbeth, and nothing good happens in Act V of Macbeth....
...asked one senior British official when I mentioned I was having lunch with Heseltine....
...curator at the V&A....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...“Rather, it hides the fact that people are living so much better elsewhere, whether that is in any of North Korea’s neighbours or indeed in North Korea itself.”...
...“Many of these retailers are sitting on real exciting treasure troves,” says Marc Brodherson, senior partner for marketing at McKinsey....
...So the lyrics include things like ‘because of the fear of kissing a loved one’ and ‘for the sunrise after the long, dark nights.’...
...If he’s embarrassed by having a senior minister who’s coughed up £5mn to HMRC over unpaid taxes during a cost of living crisis, he can do it....
...We got one senior lobbyist quoted in an article we ran the other day saying, it seems like they’ve forgotten their manners....
...He was due to spend two months living in it with colleague Karl-Johan Sorensen for an unusual experiment....
...You know, we could be living in the American equivalent of Weimar Germany, the last years of American democracy”. And it’s extraordinary statement. But do you think that’s an overstatement?...
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