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...He now does what he describes as “double-decker” programmes — a full South Bank Show plus a 70-minute interview with each subject, such as a recent one with ballet star Carlos Acosta....
...Jefferies analyst James Grzinic wrote in a note on Monday that the mooted €21.50 per share price for Carrefour was “not even close to the right level where a change of control should be discussed....
...Coached by Carlos Acosta and Marion Tait (a memorable Juliet), Parma alternated crisp, weightless dancing with sulky, teenage moments of flat-footed verismo....
...Last Friday’s Clara was the brisk, sharp-footed Anna Rose O’Sullivan, partnered by James Hay....
...The hedge fund titan Jim Chanos, also known as “Darth Vader of Wall Street” and the “LeBron James of short selling”, would agree....
...Smart reads Another one bites the dust When Acosta, a US company that helps brands secure shelf space in supermarkets, filed for bankruptcy last year it was hardly a surprise....
...The Royal Ballet’s Don Q lacks the vigour and brilliance of the Alexei Fadeyechev version — there are times when Carlos Acosta’s effort has the look of a Señorita mal gardée — but Monday night’s Russian...
...The return of White House press credentials to Jim Acosta, a CNN reporter, was just the most eye-catching case of executive deference to the courts....
...James Clapper understood the gravity of what had happened better than most....
...He may be in the Aleutians with Lord Lucan, writes James, or “in the Red Sea, in conversation with the Dalai Lama”....
...James Hay was a heartbreaking Kolya and the fleet and musical Francesca Hayward was dream casting for the heroine’s lovelorn ward. Not all of the Ashton programme got the dancing it deserved....
...James McCann, who joined from Tesco to head Carrefour’s French business, left in May....
...The Royal Ballet’s Marianela Nuñez dances the role of Lise, the titular “wayward daughter”, who has set her heart on farmer’s son Colas, danced by Carlos Acosta....
...Carlos Acosta inherits a role created on Edward Villella, that most vivid of danseurs. Acosta, big in effects, yet misses Villella’s streetwise force, his James Cagney air....
...The sylphide is a creature of male fantasy; James is obsessed by this vision of unattainable femininity, and is destroyed by his need to possess her....
...Other than a new production of James Kudelka’s Cinderella, unrepresented here, the season is just a matter of which classic or neo-classic you prefer....
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