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...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Later we end up in the library — a shack-like structure built of repurposed wood and corrugated sheets, half-open to the elements....
...There may be stars on America’s horizon still....
...Boucheron’s book, smoothly translated by Willard Wood, reminds us that Machiavelli is no advocate of unbridled state violence. Far from it, because this would lose a ruler the support of his subjects....
...Coinciding with the European discovery of the Americas, the war between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires traversed the globe....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...So you don’t have to study economics very long to figure out that we have to look at markets outside the borders of the United States,” says Greg Ibach, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture...
...In the near term, the commission’s finding that the world’s most valuable company benefitted from 25 years of illegal state aid from Ireland comes just a week before the launch of its latest iPhone....
...Mature trees grow a few inches from the walls of his house; they even take a bite into the shape of it — one wall has a V-shaped indentation to make room for a red oak....
...While a struggling economy and changing tastes within Spain might encourage owners to sell, the state has other views....
...Gaston-Louis Vuitton, the grandson of Louis Vuitton, chaired the 1925 Exposition. It was the graphic V in his monogram design of that period that became the basis for the latest Acte V collection....
...The American wine critic Robert M Parker Jr, granddaddy of US wine commentary, has presumably been watching this phenomenon from his base in the woods of Maryland for some time....
...Who: Chesterton Humberts, chesterton-international.com, tel: +44 203 040 8210 ——————————————- Little Bokeelia Island, Gulf Coast, Florida, US, $29.5m Where: Off the coast of Pine Island, western Florida...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...The restaurant is comfortable, with white tablecloths, wood panels and banquettes. It feels like a reliable lunch spot rather than an exceptional venue....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...Think of her in her most notorious poses, all undoubtedly to be recreated in the V shoot: smouldering in a white slip on a bed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in a lace-trimmed version in Butterfield 8; in...
...After the crowded, gaudy displays, the young architects’ office is a calming refuge of pale wood and stripped-back furniture sitting among a series of exquisite models in glass cases, as precious as art...
...up residence in the V&A’s permanent collection....
...The joy and relief they expressed was genuine, and their spontaneous renditions of songs ranging from “God Bless America” to “We Are The Champions” were heartfelt....
...Initial estimates suggest that about 17 per cent of the entry are eligible for free school meals – an indicator of poverty. Other local state secondary schools have a rate of 31 per cent....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...For those who sleep more soundly at night with state-of-the-art security systems, we offer a selection of the safest houses on sale around the world. ………………………………………….....
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