Hints and tips:
...“When I woke up in hospital I said, ‘Where’s my jeans, I’d better get going, it’s Olympia [now LIHS] next week.’...
...US corporates spend roughly twice what European companies do on capex and R&D (as a share of cash flow)....
...“Before, I’d be starting seeds March to June but my gardens were super-weedy....
...Still, there were much darker tableaux to be found in another Cannes highlight: Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s Into the Hairy....
...Labour councillor Sharon Thompson, the deputy leader of Birmingham city council, has blamed “successive Conservative governments for denying the city £1bn in funding”....
...If those gorillas didn’t want to interact with Freya they’d tell me with their body language before she goes in.”...
...“I used to forget the tiniest everyday things: I’d put eggs on to boil, I’d forget. Papers were stacked four feet high on my desk,” said Davis, 74....
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...“In England, I’d become too well-known as a Tatler photographer,” Jones says of his move to the US. “It was wonderful to be invisible again.”...
...He also consults for Garesio in Serralunga d’Alba. Colombo’s 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo has more class than many much more expensive Barolos, though his 2020 Barolo was the star of his range....
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...Job moves John Lewis has named Jason Tarry as chair, succeeding Sharon White. He previously spent more than 30 years working for Tesco....
...“I never thought I’d end up where I ended up,” Tarry recounted in a 2020 conversation with media platform Worth of Mouth....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...How could I possibly be in Liza Minnelli’s suite in the Savoy Hotel and Sammy Davis Jr walks in? I feel quite removed from the reality of it....
...“We’d like to see the government nurturing a homegrown plant industry,” says Curtis-Machin, suggesting tax breaks for nurseries that sign up to Plant Healthy, a voluntary biosecurity certification scheme...
...Sharon Duncan-Brewster is an athletic Queen Odysseus, shown setting off from Ithaca to fight the Trojans at the urgent prompting of war-goddess Athena, leaving a baby son, Telemachus....
...“You’ve got the two biggest beasts in the middle market, you’d be forgiven for thinking they can’t both do well [in food] at the same time, or can they?” said Hyman....
...It was also here that Sharon was inspired to found Hewi....
...Waking up in hospital one weekend in July 2017, Davis was informed by doctors that he’d lost sight in one eye in an accident....
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...“It’d be one thing if Israel had a popular prime minister. Maintaining this conflict might save him a trial....
...“I’d be shocked if they don’t do a sizeable AI deal this year, because there’s an AI arms race going on, and Apple is not going to be on the outside looking in.”...
...“I thought I’d be designing chairs and lighting; music was a pipe dream,” he says....
...“Tennis is not a 100m race, I’d say it’s an 800m to 1,500m race, sometimes even longer....
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