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...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
...I lament that I wasn’t taught piano with Billy Joel’s “Vienna”. “Exactly!” Byrne says. I ask him when he’s creatively most fulfilled....
...While the protagonists of The Commitments (1991), Brassed Off (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000) followed and achieved their dreams, Robert Carlyle’s Gaz and co were driven by desperation and found only temporary...
...There’s also the ornate Thom Browne black cape jacket with gold embroidery Lizzo wore to last year’s Met Gala, and the gold beaded catsuit in which Billy Porter was famously carried into the Met Gala in...
...But apparently there’s some innovation happening at the T-ball level for youth as well....
...Once it was pens or golf balls....
...If I really want to cut down my environmental impact, the best thing I can do is to stop creating plastic pollution by shanking balls into the water....
...But Franklin disputes the assertion that the CFA has “taken its eye off the ball”. “We have our core group working on getting the [CFA] exam across the line for computer-based testing,” she said....
...Setting down his own extraordinary story a decade later in the vast, soulless Yorkshire mansion of an English peer and mining magnate — a character loosely based on the 7th Earl “Billy” Fitzwilliam — the...
...Fellow investors include Billy Beane, the baseball executive who invented the data-driven Moneyball system celebrated in a film of the same name....
...Their opponents launched stealthy counter-attacks through indefatigable players such as 20-year-old midfielder Billy Gilmour....
...But this England team appears to have replaced hopeful “hoofball” — kicking the ball long and upfield — in favour of slow, ponderous passing in front of packed opposition defences....
...“This [approval] sets the agency back . . . they dropped the ball.”...
...In the days after the US election, Lilah explores how divided the US is with artist and activist iO Tillett Wright. iO created the hit true-crime podcast The Ballad of Billy Balls....
...The UK is already advancing the ball on climate reporting. The pension schemes bill would require explicit consideration of climate change goals, including the Paris agreement....
...Now the wrecking ball was directed at Cyrus’s sales figures....
...“As he put it, he never had a better crystal ball than anyone else,” Mr Parkhill said. The firm “was very data driven. He was one of the original quantitative investment guys.”...
...So will the Fyre Festival ball cap become the new Lehman Brother’s gym bag, for finance bros with a sense of humour? A symbol of lost pre-pandemic hubris of the young and overpaid?...
...“I wish I had a crystal ball; I wish I had a road map. The only thing we have is our moral compass, to try to do the right thing.”...
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson) The plastics fight on the ball field A sports franchise is one of the greatest trophy assets money can buy....
...“There’s a reason Billy Joel said ‘Vienna waits for you’,” she adds with a smile, referring to the US singer’s song named after the capital. Mr Hutchinson shares the pull of the city....
...Lawson, a large convenience shop chain, said it would donate 30,000 onigiri rice balls to childcare facilities to replace school lunches....
...Balls discusses with Lilah Raptopoulos the US election, the dangers of groupthink and this generation’s fight for civil rights....
...The podcast I’m listening to is The Ballad of Billy Balls by Crimetown. It’s narrated by iO Tillett Wright, who’s a trans writer and artist....
...Ball has scored poorly with ESG rating agencies because of its high energy usage, Mr Nackenson said....
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