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...At Columbia, where she undertook a master’s degree, she worked with the distinguished Polish biostatistician Agnes Berger, one of the few women then practising in the field....
...“swallys” of tea and doing things “the gether”; the weather’s “smirr and shine”) and careful descriptive similes (the jealousy that rolls around Mungo’s stomach “like a marble dropped into a children’s toy...
...True to their initial brief, the whole thing can be blown up with the ease of a pool toy. A small- to regular-sized tent takes one person between 15 and 50 seconds using a pump....
...Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle was born in 1930 into an aristocratic French family and raised in New York....
...Designer Agnès Troublé bought a self-portrait by Basquiat back in 1983, and it ended up as one of the best-selling artist’s T-shirt designs in her Agnès b fashion line....
...A riot of colour in the form of plastic beach toys and rubber rings is up at one end of the room, with a wildly colourful little screen showing beach games in high animation....
...Yet that psychological austerity contrasted with her environment: she filled every room with a sea of objects, including billboards, stuffed toys, dolls, photographs, coffee tins and souvenirs....
...Then the carefully calibrated finale: two consecutive 80km solo bike rides from Dulwich in south London, to Westerham, Kent, culminating in a gruelling climb up Toys Hill....
...Tim Stuart’s business cards simply read “Toy Hunter”. His journey from North Carolina began a decade ago, when his toy company closed its factory in Minnesota and moved production to China....
...Some of Ibiza’s most tempting villas can be found at www.mrandmrssmith.com: pick of the crop is Can Bikini, a finca sleeping 10 in the hills near St Agnes (from €11,250 per week)....
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