The curator’s art is exaggerated – or so I used to think. It’s exaggerated because it doesn’t in the end make that much difference. Clearly a great deal of care and judgement goes into arranging exhibitions and galleries. Clearly shows can be put together more or less beautifully, dramatically, coherently – and one can appreciate ...
GeneralAlso joining are: Paul Galloway, a refugee from General Accident; Danika O’Neal, coming from Investment Bank Austria; and Raymond Abbott, returning to Ivory after seven months with the Royal Bank of Scotland. “I think clients are broadly happy.”The team is headed by Raymond Haines, formerly of Hill Samuel Asset Management. “I would like to think ...
GeneralHe expressed his anxiety about what he called his “huge responsibilities” and said he was afraid that people would now regard him as the Pope’s special representative in Albania.Koliqi lived out his last years with his niece and her family in a small flat near Shkodra cathedral. Koliqi always stressed that the award of a ...
GeneralThat should add another string to its own-label portfolio, which already covers 59 per cent of its crisp sales.House brokers Peel Hunt reckon profits will rise to pounds 2.4m this year, putting the shares on a forward multiple of 10 Reasonable value.. Its Dandy and Beano crisps, joined last year by Spiderman extruded snacks, have ...
GeneralThe decision on Tuesday by federal Judge John S Martins upheld a 1995 city law banning female topless dancing in residential areas. “One does not have to be a psychologist or a sociologist to recognise that,” he said, “if it were known that 10 topless women were walking down Park Avenue and 10 topless men ...
GeneralFor the remuneration committee receives “regular advice from external independent consultants”, you see, and they say that executive pay should be in line with Ladroke’s leading competitors and “other companies which operate internationally” Thus is the going rate for the job perpetually bid upwards.. Another little slice of our industrial heritage passed away yesterday as ...
GeneralAn attempt by the Scottish National Party yesterday to promote a pensioners’ package worth pounds 12 a week for the average couple brought another withering attack on the “fiscal fantasy” of the party’s forecasts for an independent Scotland. Michael Forsyth, the Secretary of State for Scotland, said the SNP had produced a blueprint for national ...
GeneralIt seems unlikely that Labour could even have a chance in an area of small market towns and rural villages, not to mention four grant-maintained and two grammar schools.But perhaps Mrs Shewring is typical of a horde of Tories who are changing their allegiance. Peter Bradley, the Labour candidate, is so enthused by the reaction ...
GeneralShe was a traveller rather than an explorer, not interested in map-making, but rather in understanding the people among whom she found herself “I wanted to forget that we had inevitably to return home. I even lost the desire to return, and would have liked the journey to last for the rest of my life.”The ...
GeneralNow he’s put them down in a book published today, Running Board Meetings, which aims to show how such meetings should be run.”I had just visited a company that was in difficulty and the board meeting was fairly awful. I decided I had to buy the chairman a book,” says Mr Dunne.”Then I visited a ...
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