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...The term belongs among the many honorifics in black American pop, from Bessie Smith’s “Empress of the Blues” to the superlative boasts of hip-hop culture....
...A few splashes of grey turn Catharina’s squirrel pelt to ermine; satin folds are pools of light, ridges of shadow; soft fabric meets hard, gleaming pearls delineated in sprinkled dashes....
...Cynthia Chan from Singapore created woven and felted “pelts” and upholstery from clipped dog hair that would otherwise end up in landfill, recovered from local pet groomers....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound.”...
...“Peel off your skin,” she growls, flaying the words like the luckless creature’s pelt. It’s a formidable performance, a challenge to conventional notions of vocalism....
...“Wherever you look, you have NHS staff running absolutely full pelt when they’re very, very tired,” said Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...It has even underperformed the S&P 500, and by a considerable margin....
...Here are financials, industrials and energy stocks on the day, all beating the S&P: There is probably some technical reason for this bounce, it’s just one day, and it could be nothing but the dying twitches...
...The installation draws on two films that document Clark’s early years: 1984’s Hail the New Puritan for Channel 4, and 1989’s Because We Must....
...Globally, 850 retailers are now signed up as Fur Free Retailers, from John Lewis, Topshop and M&S, to Armani and Gucci....
...They may have been grateful to learn that he had sent his pet bear Bessie to the zoo on the grounds that “breeding bears in a private establishment is something which is not very practical”....
...But it will always be tempted to change them back again if old-style pelts return to fashion. 3i has had the added incentive of regulatory change to dump its debt management unit....
...In fact, the Irish novelist has lineless skin and hair the colour of a fox’s pelt. The sole clue to her age (“86 and a half”) is the range of experiences that infuse her conversation....
...Britain’s post-Brexit referendum rollercoaster continued full pelt on Monday, as the pound hit a new 30-year low, bank stocks crashed, and the opposition Labour party carried on tearing itself to pieces....
...Second number in, Ellington”s “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” started with sax and ended with Shepp’s gruff and gritty baritone and an authentic blues shout....
...He splutters to the summit but then, whoosh, he hurtles towards the next station at full pelt....
...You can judge a trapper by his pelts, and Carl’s got a lot of pelts.”...
...- Guest post: Ukraine rushing full pelt towards catastrophe | By Ben Aris of bne Crimea is due to hold a referendum this weekend that will probably result in the Russophile region breaking away from the...
...Car plants, which have high fixed costs and significant capital tied up in machinery, are far more profitable when working at full pelt....
...Collectief 33⅓’s Blauwbaard is a dark, droll take on Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, a masterpiece of video projection and computer animation....
...At one extreme there are old-established family businesses such as Andrew Marr International, the Hull fish trading giant, William Jackson, producers of Aunt Bessie’s frozen foods, and Oldroyd and Sons,...
...Big red “X”s slashed through images of hajjis waving their arms in panic. The complex reverberated with a deafening sound as pilgrims hurled their pebbles....
...Never mind that I don’t understand how a savings bond works, or that for sometime I believed that a “bear market” referred to the trade of grizzly pelts....
...Now, before you all rush to pelt me with leftover sprouts, let me qualify that statement. For years, I’ve been supporting a charity called Opportunity International (www.opportunity.org.uk)....
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