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...I created an “I’m a Native New Yorker” Pandora playlist that, of course, includes Donna Summer. The thing I couldn’t do without is my glasses – and my imagination....
...Venera Gimadieva (Donna Anna), Ruzan Mantashyan (Donna Elvira), Victoria Randem (Zerlina), and Jerzy Butryn (the Commendatore) all tended to employ overblown vibrato when putting any pressure on their voices...
...She had a stint “working with Donna in New York” (I quickly work out she is referring to Donna Karan), which Crawford calls “my Devil Wears Prada moment”....
...Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, a trade body, said the flow of exports to the EU had improved from a “standstill to a trickle”, but huge issues remained....
...The opener, “Donna Lee”, was recorded for Savoy in 1947, when Davis was Charlie Parker’s sideman....
...With its accompanying playlist of Faith Evans, Amy Winehouse and Jay-Z, a beat pulses through this slice of south London life, as Evans’ characters celebrate Obama’s victory and come to terms with the end...
...that celebrated the creative methods of the writer Donna Tartt....
...Photographs: Sotheby’s; Christie’s; Di Donna gallery...
...Mrs Clinton is trying to capitalise on the unease about her rival by sending surrogates to Utah, including Donna Brazile, head of the Democratic National Committee, who last week rolled into Salt Lake City...
...Despite gaining no voting rights in a lossmaking company — Snap remains controlled by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, its co-founders — investors were enraptured. They are not alone....
...Evans quickly exits our car to help out. “We don’t have prima donnas in rallying,” he explains. “Everybody pitches in to help.”...
...In “The Change” Evan is losing his artist wife Gina to menopausal melancholy....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...US author Donna Tartt’s 784-page novel The Goldfinch is perhaps the most notable omission....
...A full-page advertisement in Sunday’s The New York Times carried the signatures of Stephen King, Donna Tartt and more than 900 other authors calling on their readers to lobby Jeff Bezos to resolve Amazon...
...Willing to sleep her way to stardom, she soon finds herself embroiled in a fevered ménage-à-trois with a famous director and his prima-donna wife....
...The publishers name Donna Leon as a comparison but Webster is very much his own man, and his dyspeptic Spanish detective should not be compared with Leon’s Brunetti....
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...“This transaction is not only good for TXU shareholders, but also for employees, customers and residents,” said Donald Evans, a former US commerce secretary who became chairman of the new company....
...“With unemployment high, and inflation very low, I’d say accommodation is very important,’’ Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, said in a television interview, also on Monday....
...deco furniture enjoyed renewed attention when Mick Jagger was buying from Gordon Watson, and Keith Skeel’s idiosyncratic English taste was especially in demand when it became known that his fans included Donna...
...Donna Barasch, who runs the Angeli Caffe in LA, visited the new stoe in Anaheim, and said ”If there were one nearby, I would take my mom there every week”....
...On an average day, the company will deliver 15m packages worldwide – but on its biggest delivery day of the year (December 19), that is likely to rise by 45 per cent to 22m, according to Donna Barrett, the...
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