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...Five years have passed since Prince Andrew sat for the cameras of the BBC’s Newsnight to discuss his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...The solo show has adopted all sorts of fascinating new guises recently — think of Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray or Andrew Scott in Vanya....
...Ed Catmull, when president of Pixar, the animation studio, built good friction into the process of developing films such as Toy Story....
...Andrew Winch, a veteran British superyacht and private jet specialist at Winch Design, came up with its Great Gatsby theme for Poland’s richest man in 2010, and watched the yacht become an in-demand charter...
...Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy (Faber/Scribner) Kilroy’s first novel in over 10 years is a searing account of the everyday and epic challenges of new motherhood, which toys with a variety of genres to...
...Programme said rejected items deemed to be “dual use” — with potential military applications — had included “generators, crutches, field hospital kits, inflatable water tanks, wooden boxes of children’s toys...
...McCawley: “How would you describe sex toys?” Maxwell: “I wouldn’t describe sex toys.”...
...Mattel’s chief executive hailed the success of the Barbie movie as proof of its ability to find new revenue streams for its brands, but cautioned that soft toy industry demand would drag on sales in the...
...The Nutcracker’s ballerina may spend act one in her dressing room while the Stahlbaums’ guests do their Grossvater dance and the mice and toy soldiers do battle in the drawing room, but her party piece is...
...“As we head into the holidays, prices are down from a year ago on important items including a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk, toys, appliances, electronics, car rentals and airline fares,” Biden said....
...Those who love Swiss travel and transport will also find all manner of very Swiss memorabilia: from toy post buses to old bicycle number plates and mountain railway sets, or models of vehicles that once...
...I remember seeing one of Diane Arbus’s contact sheets, her famous shot of the little boy holding a toy hand grenade [from 1962]. It’s kind of horrifying; what a creepy kid....
...Mattel’s sales dropped by a fifth over the toy industry’s critical holiday season last year, falling short of its expectations as consumers delayed their purchases and retailers ordered less new inventory...
...Andrew Calder typifies this approach to hiring, developing and rewarding legal talent....
...Mattel’s sales dropped by a fifth over the toy industry’s critical holiday season, falling short of its expectations as consumers delayed their purchases and retailers ordered less new inventory....
...abolitionist John Brown and the fictional pancake syrup spokesperson Aunt Jemima; Russian president Vladimir Putin reimagined as a child’s doll holding a sunflower between its teeth; and a photograph of toy...
...The biggest promotions this year are for toys, at 34 per cent off listed prices, and electronics, where discounts are peaking at 27 per cent, Adobe found....
...Mattel noted that higher-priced toys had been affected by “macroeconomic challenges”, with sales of its American Girl dolls down 16 per cent....
...Ynon Kreiz, chief executive, said Mattel was “seeing some softness” in demand for higher-priced toys....
...Ynon Kreiz, chief executive said Mattel was “seeing some softness” in demand for higher-priced toys....
...Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ralph Fiennes nurtured their talents on miniature theatres, says Heard....
...“He made threats quietly so supervising women could not hear, employed toys to appear to be playing with me whilst using them to make up violent and macabre scenarios that he would relate to me....
...Here’s the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson....
...They blame the media in part for misrepresenting the failure of large corporations such as Kodak, Xerox, Blockbuster and Toys“R”Us, as a problem of the traditional corporate hierarchy not the failure to...
...Mattel, which was founded in 1945, makes toys such as Barbie, Hot Wheels and its Fisher-Price brand that have become a staple of American life....
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