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...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...A touch of drama The mood for winter coats is larger than life — think Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, Ivana Trump in her heyday or the original TV series of Dynasty. No shrinking violets here....
...“We are far less optimistic about a V-shaped recovery than some people are saying. For developing countries, the worst is yet to come.”...
...Light can only move 30cm in a nanosecond, which means that today’s “masters of the universe” — to borrow Tom Wolfe’s phrase — are bumping up against the physical limitations imposed by the speed of light...
...Plus displays on patent infringement, experimental first world war dazzle camouflage and an anechoic chamber from “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe....
...(FT) RIP Tom Wolfe The pioneer of “New Journalism” he passed away on Monday at 88....
...In 2008 I flew to Moscow for the Chelsea v Manchester United Champions League final. Anyone holding a match ticket could enter Russia without a visa, which was a first in modern history....
...The takeaway: a party without a purpose empurple (v): to make or become purple. Eg. "Theresa May has empurpled the Conservative party"....
...One is the exhibition David Bowie is, a handsome but hagiographic retrospective that opened at the V&A in London in 2013, one of the most popular shows in its history....
...And this Wigmore Hall concert did the same, while throwing in a bonus feature: the opportunity to see Bostridge treading the boards in snippets from Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It and Twelfth Night...
...“It is not correct to compare the 2015/16 revenue with the previous year,” said Oliver Morley, the DVLA’s chief executive....
...Alan Wolfe, the eminent political scientist, rated her among the two or three most important Americans of the latter half of the 20th century, even though “every idea she ever had was scatterbrained, dangerous...
...Oliver Morley, DVLA chief executive, said: “Almost 99 per cent of all vehicles on the road are correctly taxed: that’s around £6bn in vehicle tax passed to the Treasury every year....
...Paul Sankey of Wolfe Research calls E&Ps a “hope trade”....
...Mr Balls stood with a fixed, distant expression as he realised he had lost Morley & Outwood to the Conservatives by 422 votes....
...Photographs: Lourdes Jansana, Lewis Morley Archive/National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum...
...The following decade, the 1970s, was famously labelled the “Me” decade by Tom Wolfe. Nonsense, said others. It was the Thatcher-Reagan years....
...Rugby resumes The 2013 Six Nations rugby tournament begins with Wales against Ireland at the Millennium Stadium, and England v Scotland at Twickenham. Italy take on France tomorrow....
...Clients, after years of feeling obliged to commission what Tom Wolfe called the “non-bourgeois worker-housing” aesthetic of the Bauhaus, welcomed decoration back....
...Allen & Heath Allied Filter Systems Alvan Blanch Development Company Americhem Europe AmSafe Bridport (I) Ancon t/a Ancon Building Products (I) Aquapac International Ardent Ashtree Glass ATB Morley...
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...She had worked for Hill Samuel Asset Management, Aberdeen Asset Management – where she became an executive director – and Morley Fund Management where she was chief investment manager....
...Jeremy Treglown is professor of English literature at Warwick university and author of ‘V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life’ (Pimlico)...
...The Jewish Museum’s ponderously titled new exhibition, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, might more aptly have been dubbed “Greenberg v....
...Used and reused by newspapers during the war, Morley’s picture was not quite what it seemed....
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