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...The bar for “my best” is clearly high: poet Amanda Gorman, model Naomi Campbell, actors Angela Bassett and Idris Elba, singer Tiwa Savage and King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Ashanti in Ghana, were...
...The environmental organisation’s Bill McKibben called it “a savage mistake by the Biden administration, which hopes for a small political boost”. But the politics are tricky....
...After last week’s savage attack, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and free expression....
...But, as the name suggests, the shop is also part record store, part café, part community space and, during the pandemic, an intimate performance venue for Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage, whose performances were...
...How do they know they’re not called Amanda? Something is missing. Maybe Brown lacks the pomposity. Maybe only he could detect his linguistic tics. Yes, Craig Brown could parody Craig Brown....
...Perrotta’s line in wry, deadpan comedy stops well short of savage satire, even though the territory he’s exploring is stark: sexual consent and its absence, the ravages of old age (and the reminder to the...
...(NYT) Amanda Staveley/Newcastle United The former model-turned-financier has tabled two bids for Mike Ashley’s club. Here’s the full behind the scenes story....
...Barnes and Lee Mead as Cinders and Prince Charming respectively), showbiz glitterati (Amanda Holden as the Fairy Godmother) and aristocracy (Nigel Havers as, more or less, himself in a tricorn hat) appear...
...The chair of the prize judges, historian Amanda Foreman, gave what can be taken as a new statement of literary intent: “I think that fiction should not be comfortable.”...
...savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain....
...American theatre reviewing is uncompromisingly savage when a playwright no longer pleases....
...Amanda Triossi, a jewellery historian and curator of the Bulgari Heritage Collection, worked at Sotheby’s in the 1980s and remembers how difficult it was to sell tiaras....
...But it is in the domestic scenes that the play stalls: some of the dialogue here is peculiarly wooden and the relationships feel undernourished, particularly that between Gerald and Amanda (Louise Delamere...
...‘Mission Telemark’ (Walker, £7.99), by Amanda Mitchison, is published February 1...
...The other books on the longlist are: The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison; The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton; Savage Lands by Clare Clark; Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig; The Way Things Look to Me by...
...Robin Savage, analyst at KBC Peel Hunt, said Hansard “could, and should, have declared another special dividend”. The shares, down a third over the year, closed up 5p at 137p....
...Savage Grace will not do at all, for anyone or anything....
...More often than not, foxes seem to represent the characters’ deepest fears and desires, something primitive or savage lurking beneath the polite fiction of New Labour’s “New Britain”....
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