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...A week later, a fat attachment circulates by email, only to sink rapidly into an inbox brimful of the day’s more urgent demands....
...At her Warsaw home, Maria Katarzyna Krętowska is surrounded by memories of her grandmother — the Polish artist Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska (1933-2019)....
...More recently, climate fiction — or “cli-fi” — has gone mainstream, with novels such as Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and The Deluge by Stephen Markley exploring the causes and consequences of climate...
...A life begun in thoroughly rackety circumstances powers Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead (Faber, 21 hrs/3 mins), in which Dickens’s David Copperfield is transplanted to the impoverished Appalachians...
...2015 Paris agreement’s goal of keeping global warming to 1.5C requires emissions to fall to nearly zero by 2050 — leaving a share so small that any remaining greenhouse gases can be mopped up by “carbon sinks...
...I have a collection of Mexican bathroom furniture, from cisterns to mirrors to an entire sink that I picked up at Tonala Market just outside Guadalajara....
...The studios of Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Munnings, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Jackson Pollock and Vanessa Bell all have second lives as tourist attractions....
...For the first time in the group’s 111-year history, L’Oréal named a woman, Barbara Lavernos, as deputy chief executive, a post that has groomed past CEOs....
...Back at St John’s College in Portsmouth all those years ago, it was sink or swim — and I chose to swim....
...Some places could sink more, some could sink less. Worst of all, under the town we have a huge lake of natural water....
...a game of washing her hair in the kitchen sink....
...Blending Pop Art and ready-mades with a social conscience, crashing the kitchen sink and toy robots into high culture, it became the hotbed of the emerging architecture of Brutalism....
...The oil supermajor has been accused of securities fraud by Barbara Underwood, the state’s attorney-general, over some of its climate disclosures....
...In a large oil by José de Páez (1770-80), the familiar cloth hangs like a banner above Christ carrying the cross; below, a multiracial crowd of sinners sinks into a bog, pleading to be pulled to spiritual...
...Among the most talked-about is one that hasn’t even opened yet: Iniala Harbour House, a small and very exclusive design-led inn on Valletta’s St Barbara Bastion ramparts....
...Mitchell’s concept relies heavily on the exhibitionistic physicality of Barbara Hannigan as Mélisande....
...After his New Hampshire win, Bernie Sanders warned that Team Clinton was hitting him with everything except the kitchen sink, but that the “kitchen sink is coming pretty soon”. It may be here....
...After Katrina hit New Orleans, much of the plant life was wiped out, not from drowning but rather from all of the contents of what people stored in their garages and under their kitchen sinks: pesticides...
...However, political disagreements may sink the project yet....
...Does that make the whole boat sink or do you patch up the hole?’”...
...Karsten Greve in Cologne and Barbara Mathes in New York have held exhibitions this year, and now London’s Waddington Custot is offering about 30 works, some in collaboration with the estate, others from...
...“We have got to sink or swim together,” said Crossman. “Not sink or swim,” replied Callaghan. “Sink or sink.” “Why can’t you resign if you think like that?” said Crossman. “Get out Jim! Get out!”...
...Flight Behaviour , by Barbara Kingsolver, Faber, RRP£18.99 Dellarobia’s life on a failing sheep farm in the rural US is wretched until she discovers a flame-like swarm of butterflies....
...He was busy working on the deal to take over ABN Amro that would later sink his bank. No one present thought this could be a harbinger of doom....
...You need to find the ‘sink-or-swim’ challenge. Most people found that when they took on something daunting they rose to the challenge.”...
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