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...Ballet companies are often judged by how well they can dance the 19th-century classics. These days, however, an equally useful yardstick is to see them in William Forsythe’s ballets....
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...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...Despite the self-assurance projected by Avedon’s male subjects, power was no longer in their hands alone....
...America, in other words, should brace itself for a turbulent six months ahead – with no assurance of a safe landing....
...But if you’re a shareholder in a UK life assurance company, you’ll be happy to know that they’ve got a spare £1.5bn in their pockets from early deaths, and there’s likely more where that came from....
...As he wrote, “far more serious even than the suppression of competition is the suppression of industrial liberty, indeed of manhood itself”....
...Liberty IT has more than 400 employees that supply its Boston, Massachusetts-based parent company, Liberty Mutual Insurance, with technological solutions....
...He was surrounded by family in his final days, his partner of 48 years, William L Thompson, having pre-deceased him....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
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...Their destination was Boston, a voyage across the Atlantic that would take 18 days by steamer....
...Others are collaborations with the likes of American designer Michael Michaud or British company Mirabelle....
...The V&A’s collection of “aesthetic dress” (dresses for “actresses and others with artistic leanings”) features several extraordinary mauve garments, including a smocked dress by Liberty with a white lace...
...“the integrity and assurance of food supply networks”....
...The earlier effort hyperventilates while Queen Mab finds the cadence of outrage with much greater assurance....
...He is resolved that his life assurance should buy Biff the future that his life itself never could....
...“It was a desperation move and I think things were maybe overlooked,” said Mark Williams, an academic at Boston University’s School of Management....
...The Next American Economy, by William Holstein, Walker & Company, RRP$26, 256 pages The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream, by Gary Shapiro, Beaufort Books, RRP$25.95, 224 pages Make...
...Wilful blindness had started life as a legal concept in the nineteenth century. A judge in Regina v....
...Domestic life at the Osbornes’ Notting Hill home appears more ordered: the chancellor and his wife have two children, Luke and Liberty, but they are seldom photographed as a family in public....
...Social scientists and civil libertarians warn that our privacy is being eroded, as ever more of our life is mediated by the web....
...William Shakespeare’s depiction of the hesitant Danish prince has a lasting appeal, in part because his dilemma is such a human one. Who has not wavered on the brink of a life-changing decision?...
...America, Empire of Liberty: A New History By David Reynolds Allen Lane, £30 When America looks in the mirror it sees “liberty”, never “empire”, says Reynolds....
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