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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...but both Hayes and her lover were O)....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...To Tories such as Sir John Hayes, leader of the so-called Common Sense Group, it has fed “an almost obsessive interest in slavery”....
...And not least the industrial bits and pieces promoted from mechanical function to arresting form: big buttons and especially those front-and-centre zips....
...It also creates an almost eerily silent interior, with none of the mechanical background hum of artificial climate control....
...smell of fir trees to evoke settings and intertwining the text with interviews with ex-servicemen. goatandmonkey.co.uk, February 17-27, then touring Hamlet Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Young...
...It complemented the perspective he learnt from his adoptive father, who was a mechanical engineer, that craftsmanship mattered....
...Young designers who have grown up with the technology are beginning to use it directly not just to prototype but to manufacture. Dutch designer Dirk van der Kooij has built his reputation on it....
...Amid the embarrassment of riches on offer – every reference to Linley’s childhood is littered with his descriptions of how lucky he considers himself – the young boy found himself drawn to “mechanical objects...
...An old-fashioned automaton, and the watchmaker’s art, came to the fore again last year in Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo, in which a young boy desperately tries to restore a broken mechanical man because he...
...In addition to the Civic and Jazz small car, the plant will next year begin mass production of a new version of its CR-V compact sport utility vehicle....
...There is no mechanical link between government spending and encouraging private investment, which is what we need....
...The wool monty In the autumn, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of …sweaters, writes David Hayes. Really? Those wardrobe staples often used to symbolise nerdiness, or grandpa-dom?...
...‘Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts’, sponsored by Ernst & Young, is at the V&A until January 17 2010 www.vam.ac.uk/maharaja...
...Take, for example, the mounting of the V-twins that characterise Harleys....
.... £1,800 www.antiqueglass-london.com v Special splurgeDesk clock Fabergé Dated just pre-1899, this superb desk clock was made in St Petersburg by Fabergé, jewellers to the Russian tsars....
...In the 1790s the track to success for any ambitious young man on the frontier was through land speculation, the law or soldiering and Jackson had done all three....
...For example Richard Branson’s V, held simultaneously in two parks in Chelmsford and Staffordshire, where advertisements are shown on giant screens between the acts....
...Charlotte Mullins is the editor of the V&A Magazine. “Phallacy” runs at the New End Theatre, Hampstead, London NW3, until May 14....
...Radhakrishnan, 32, a mechanical engineer whose own marriage plans fell apart in 1995 after he tested positive for HIV in Dubai....
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