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...So, I mean, Sacha Baron Cohen is probably best known by his characters, i.e. Borat and Ali G....
...No need to tell them twice that you want ridiculous amounts of water at breakfast – or a half-order of cacio e pepe as a starter (it’s the best in Paris)....
...As they cut down the forests, built their houses of wood and mud, planted corn and beans, and set their cattle to graze, I imagine they were driving one another mad whistling the Prelude in G Minor....
...But as she got to know people at clubs, they “understood that I come to do my job, and they would have some respect....
...Learning Chopin’s formidable Ballade in G minor has shown me that, if it might one day be possible for me to play octaves, I suspect I won’t ever have the time to make that happen....
...“My [male] writer friends, they tell me, ‘When I want to write, I need to walk outside, so I walk and I think of nothing,’ but as a woman it’s impossible....
...It was somehow more polite in a restaurant to whisper a minatory “E-N-T” than to make the possibly audible observation “English Next Table”....
...(FT) Barbara Bush dies aged 92 Barbara Pierce Bush, the former First Lady of the US, matriarch of a formidable political clan, and only the second woman, after Abigail Adams, to be both wife and mother...
...You can imagine what happened next: another round of outrage. Shriver wrote a reply in The Spectator to object, with justification, to being characterised on Twitter as a “racist provocateur”....
...Email your problem in confidence to money@ft.com Our next question My unmarried, childless 57-year-old friend died this month intestate, so his estate goes to his 88-year-old mother, who does not need...
...Wexner’s father came to America as a teenager; his mother was the first generation of her family born in the US....
...I’m eyeing next is Zadie Smith’s latest novel Swing Time, set in west Africa and London, as I find her writing so compelling....
...And the thing I’m eyeing next is a gorgeous Gustavian sofa for my bedroom in New York – sourced by my friend, Scandinavian art and antiques dealer Jill Dienst....
...The answer is that it allows us to move “economic value forward and backward through time”. That allows humans to plan their lives, both individually and collectively....
...And, in recent years, there has been a growing devotion to the acerbic English postwar novelist Barbara Pym, who worked as an editor on an anthropologists’ journal, and was a peerless chronicler of church...
...And, finally, my mother would have been most distressed to have her aunt’s 18th-century oak dresser described as an oversized Victorian sideboard....
...Arriving early at B&G Oysters, a preppy restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay, I turn to the glossary of Junot Díaz’s first book Drown....
...It is one form of “food aid”, a term that also includes community care services (e.g., Meals on Wheels) and location-based provision (e.g., soup kitchens)....
...Protagonist Barbara Parker progresses from beauty pageants and make-up counters to a role in a successful sitcom. Artful and perceptive....
..., not to mention while trying to make time for family and friends....
...You were almost an adult when your mother married him. “Yep,” he said. “We were the best of friends. Best friends....
...She e-mailed him at 5:37 p.m. with a draft of what the Fed would tell the world the next morning at 8 a.m....
...Every few years, I would get reinvited and would always be seated next to him....
...Are You My Mother?...
...As we sit down in our booth, it seems as if every guest and every waiter stops by to pay homage to West. To each he says, “Do you know Sister Anna?”...
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