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...Which much-played piece of piano music was the only published composition by Euphemia Allen, who was 16 when she wrote it?...
...Law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Ryan Preston Dahl as a partner in its business finance & restructuring practice....
...The releases included an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG and Woody Allen’s Cafe Society....
...Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother, edited by Donald Sturrock, John Murray, RRP£30 A collection published ahead of the centenary of the late British children’s author on September 13....
...Giselle Allen is a resolute, if sometimes raw-sounding Lisa. Paulina, richly sung by Catherine Young, is played as a tart who is overfond of the vodka bottle....
...So he joined Booz Allen Hamilton in Mexico. “In consulting, everyone wanted to change to private equity. I got headhunted but I said no, I loved consulting.”...
...Gone are Alice’s encrusting head mask and actors who double the singers; in their place are huge pieces of furniture – cupboards, bookcases, armoires – that move around the stage (décor by Allen Moyer),...
...The plot, a formulaic patricians-versus-plebeians tussle with pivotal love interest, came across with no compensating depth in Kevin Newbury’s staging, designed by Allen Moyer, which made an unsuccessful...
...At times, Gates’s intellectual presence at the foundation is vaguely reminiscent of Willy Wonka, the factory owner in Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
...London BFI film festival The 53rd London Film Festival opens on Wednesday with Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson’s animation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book....
...Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin books, agreed to the launch, and some 16,000 children signed up in the first year....
...Here she is contrasted with Madame Mao (Tracy Dahl in urgent, steely voice), whose identification with the peasants is harshly doctrinaire....
...Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map (Allen Lane, ₤16.99) also covers this subject....
...Like the heroine of her second novel, Lily Dahl, Hustvedt grew up in the Midwest. And like Lily, she dreamed of escaping to New York City....
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