Hints and tips:
...The kids’ market is saturated with celebrity offerings, mostly picture books, sometimes ghostwritten and often expertly illustrated, from chefs (Jamie Oliver: Billy and the Giant Adventure) to sports stars...
...Here the gun was a Colt or a Smith & Wesson, the girl was a femme fatale; Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward or one of their ilk....
...Ms Collins, Ms Murkowski and Mr Gardner are all weighing up political considerations back home, with re-election races looming in November....
...That is why Britten’s naval opera is as much about us as about Starry Vere, the commander who fails to intervene in the summary justice that sends innocent Billy to his death....
...of Britten’s Billy Budd at the London Coliseum the night before....
...Edward Gardner, conducting the London Philharmonic, makes the score tingle but the singing is variable. Camilla Tilling’s lyric soprano stresses the Governess’s virtue over neurosis....
...But Billy Susman, managing director of Threadstone, an advisory group, said: “Is there a cosmetics executive out there who’s so good it could stop a sale?”...
...Thursday May 5 Dorset Brewing up with Billy Bragg Reporter to Billy Bragg: “Hello Billy, the locals here in Bridport tell me you’re the man to talk to about tonight’s election.”...
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