Hints and tips:
...Slow-braised Middlewhite pig’s head cutlet is a sort of rissole, with all the unguent greasiness that implies....
...The handbag — along with all the loose coins, crumpled tissues and miscellaneous clutter that always seem to collect at the bottom — feels like a relic of pre-pandemic life....
...At his death, Sir Richard left to his sons all his interest in “a certain plantation, negroes premises with their appurtenances in the island of St Vincent (..) and his property and enslaved people on Dominica...
...She has all the appurtenances of blue-collar leisure: cigarette, magazines, feathered slippers, and a floral-print housedress riding immodestly up her thigh....
...The idea that you can so lightly nullify facts, disrupt social norms and chip away at established authority feels all too timely and dangerous....
...and white women together....
...They’re not about the future at all. The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown.”...
...Thoreau’s ascetic bed, Freud’s sumptuous couch, Emily Dickinson’s virginal dress, even the threesome of peas nestled in a cosy pod at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello garden — so many items in this suggestive...
...The Met show culminates with his 1915 “Still Life with Checked Tablecloth”, a coyly dry title for an explosive oil, in which the appurtenances of a kitchen – newspaper, grapes, a bottle of ale, another of...
...Reno is a thoroughly conventional narrator, one who could have turned up with minor embellishments in an Edith Wharton novel. But Kushner surrounds her with the appurtenances of a DeLillo text....
...It opens with a fantastic concoction of bold grey-and-green-striped silk gauze, trimmed with a black fringe and cinched at the tiny waist....
...Everywhere, there are signs of an economy running at full capacity....
...There are all the merry appurtenances of pretension: the secret physical language, the chatter, the angst and the cheery assumption that we need to understand about these private anxieties, these ill-behaved...
...and every video game appurtenance imaginable....
...New buildings are rising there on real estate more valuable than ever. While trading is on screens rather than in physical markets, the screens are grouped together in trading rooms....
...More columns at www.ft.com/eyres harry.eyres@ft.com...
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