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FT Magazine
Tim Harford: why we fall for cons
...Since the dawn of the television age, the only person ever to have overcome a height deficit of more than three inches was the incumbent George W Bush running against John Kerry....
November 14, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Is English National Opera’s ‘boldly feminine’ Salome bold enough?
...David Soar sings strongly, though not without some strain, as John the Baptist....
October 1, 2018
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewVisual Arts
Tamed by time: Martha Rosler at the Jewish Museum, New York
...opens with her best-known work, “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” (c.1967-72), a series of cunning photomontages that slice up mythologies of aggression and domesticity with a few strokes of the rapier...
November 14, 2018
Women of the Year
Maria Grazia Chiuri on becoming the first female head of Dior
...“Not only about Mr Dior, but also Marc Bohan, John Galliano, Raf Simons, Yves Saint Laurent.”...
December 8, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Modern Masters, Sadler’s Wells, London — review
...There is a fatuous subtext about post-coital feelings, and ENB’s dancers look distinctly uneasy in long skirts, underwear and rapiers....
March 11, 2015
Life & Arts
Cole Porter: a tribute at the Proms
...That was before the John Wilson Orchestra came on to the scene in 2009....
August 8, 2014
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the Year
...Rapier-wielding Lucy Carlyle joins the shambolic outfit and is thrust into a series of chilling adventures. A delicious mixture of bone-dry wit and spooky shocks....
November 29, 2013
InterviewFT Magazine
First Person: Christabel Watson
...There were a couple of Jaguars, a Rapier, a Riley and a clutch of Minis. I could see the other drivers’ faces in my mirror – one had to look behind as much as in front....
September 16, 2011
Climate change
Kevin Rudd
...Other times he used language like a rapier. One opposition leader, Andrew Peacock, was a “painted, perfumed gigolo”. John Howard, prime minister from 1996 to 2007, was “a desiccated coconut”....
February 18, 2011
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Kevin Rudd
...Other times he used language like a rapier. One opposition leader, Andrew Peacock, was a “painted, perfumed gigolo”. John Howard, prime minister from 1996 to 2007, was “a desiccated coconut”....
February 18, 2011
Life & Arts
Morte D’Arthur, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
...Shakespeare can easily be staged in modern dress with guns doing service for rapiers, but Arthurian legend demands wimples, armour, chain mail and broadswords....
June 20, 2010
Life & Arts
The Royal Family, Friedman Theatre, New York
...Watching Reg Rogers as Tony is a delight, reminding audiences that there are still actors alive who can marry rapier swordplay with rapier wit....
October 12, 2009
Life & Arts
The Beggar’s Opera, Linbury Theatre, London
...If ever there was a time for the son of John Gay to arise, this is it....
January 22, 2009
UK banks
Kheraj hired as JPMorgan Cazenove chief
...John Varley, chief executive of Barclays, said he was looking forward to taking advice from his former finance director as a client....
July 28, 2008
Life & Arts
London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, London
...Then it was on to the Symphony No. 8 and more forward drive, but this time with extra refinement, as if the bludgeon had been replaced by a rapier....
January 24, 2008
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Terrorism
Language a great leader makes
...Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has a directness that can be refreshing but it is more like a slashing blade than a rapier wit – whether he is promising to sweep racaille (scum) from the streets or...
July 11, 2008
Life & Arts
The erotic drama of autumnal art
...Millais precedes the title “Lingering Autumn” with a couplet from John Donne: “Nor spring nor summer hath such grace/ As I have seen in one autumnal face.”...
November 23, 2007
International Financial Reporting Standards
Observer - Asia
...But there is little chance of John Howard, Australia’s prime minister, joining the list of endangered species....
June 7, 2006
World
Roll of Honour
...The other special prizes were: The John Bartle Award (Best New Agency) Wieden+Kennedy for the Honda UK case....
November 2, 2004
Life & Arts
Feature: University challenge
...Oxford and Cambridge have development offices where they try some of the arts practised by Rapier and Reardon in Harvard....
October 15, 2004

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