Hints and tips:
...Jon Thompson is set to step down as chief of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council to become the new chair of the HS2 high-speed rail link project....
...I marvel at their merry discounts: Thompson & Morgan have just tried to tempt me with an offer of 72 summer bedding plants as plugs, six of 12 varieties, for only £9.99....
...Floral still life from the golden age of Dutch painting has been having a cultural moment, inspiring a generation of floral designers (including Emily Thompson, Thierry Boutemy and Mark Colle), ad campaigns...
...I marvel at a rainbow of fish: dusky chubs, blue-chin parrotfish, Panamic sergeant majors and white-tipped reef sharks....
...“The big market is in American superhero comics, largely fuelled by the Marvel Universe films,” he says....
...Thus we find new, witty, sometimes unnerving takes on such subjects as aliens (Nir Yaniv’s “Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys”), robots (Vina Jie-Min Prasad’s “Fandom for Robots”) and time travel (Tade Thompson...
...Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah, the defending gold medallists from 2012 and 2016, respectively also ran....
...Scarlett Johansson stars in the movie as superhero spy Natasha Romanoff, a member of the Avengers central to Marvel’s so-called cinematic universe....
...Meanwhile, back at Delos, owner of the titular theme park, interim CEO Charlotte (Tessa Thompson) pledges to “resume host production!”...
...Other seasoned performers here include Elizabeth Marvel as Goneril, Aisling O’Sullivan as Regan, Jayne Houdyshell as the hapless Earl of Gloucester and John Douglas Thompson as the ever-loyal Earl of Kent...
...Of these, Late Night is arguably the best, starring Emma Thompson on career-high form as a chat-show host facing her Waterloo in the internecine world of American late-night TV....
...On Highway 80 from Sacramento, there’s little to marvel at, except American drivers’ habit of changing lanes with no indicators or braking room....
...Other readables An op-ed by Helen Thompson nicely encapsulates the global political economy of changing oil prices....
...In the job interview the idea for a piece on Marvel comics, where she had briefly worked as a secretary, is suggested. Others followed....
...It is called Striped Marvel and I am hoping the public vote will do justice to it. Marigolds are supposed to be good to eat in sandwiches or on seafood as they have a lemony taste....
...The stars keep coming: Emma Thompson (calamity stepmother with stateside twang), Candice Bergen, Adam Driver. Then the lesser-knowns move in on the leftovers....
...Barney Thompson is the FT’s legal correspondent Illustration by Ciaran Murphy...
...Marvel lives up to her name — purposely underused and to great effect — giving us a female comedy oddball to rival Elaine May in her prime....
...But it’s impossible to imagine Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan wrapping themselves, as Thompson does, in a “Resist” flag....
...Only Marvel’s assortment of superheroes represents a more valuable film franchise....
...Through all this, the reader turns again and again to the photographs of this stocky woman with the pudding face and Joan of Arc hair, and simply marvels....
...Emma Thompson is in there somewhere too, among the no doubt colourful characters encountered by the pair of silver bears....
...“Back in the day, everybody who worked and voted was part of the studio system and they belonged, they all had affiliations to one studio or another,” says Anne Thompson, editor-in-chief of a film industry...
...The venerable Jerome has doormen in Stetsons and the fabled J Bar, which Hunter S Thompson used as an office. The soulless St Regis has a blazing fire in reception, even when it’s 30C outside....
...Cineworld can thank the superheroes for better than expected trading this spring, with a pantheon of Marvel characters in the blockbuster Avengers Assemble tempting cinemagoers to the stalls....
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