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...Meanwhile Shirley Hughes’s Dogger’s Christmas (Puffin £12.99) revisits her 1977 classic Dogger, with a yuletide twist....
...(Wendy Toye, 1955, UK) In a madcap Technicolor short, an Edwardian suitor brings his love all the gifts in the titular Christmas carol....
...He, Selznick and director Carol Reed were discussing the cinematic classic-to-be that the American mogul was about to produce....
...“Rarely attempted, and still more rarely successful, is the bibliomemoir,” began Joyce Carol Oates in her 2014 review of Rebecca Mead’s personal journey around George Eliot, My Life in Middlemarch....
...Owen and his wife, Deborah, are well drawn; the sympathy between the latter and Shirley Williams, both working mothers, is moving....
...Graham Greene’s attitudes to sin and death are on display in his film reviews, though he overstepped the mark with Shirley Temple and received a libel writ....
...It’s making sure that these communities, the individuals in these communities, are made whole,” said Carol Browner, the White House energy tsar....
...“In 2004 I sure didn’t vote for Al Sharpton or Carol Moseley Braun, and neither did more than 90 per cent of other African- Americans. There’s a lot of rationality going on out there.”...
...Arvo Pärt’s sweetly ingenuous “Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten” led seamlessly into Britten’s “Corpus Christi Carol”, sung by Upshaw with raw tenderness....
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