Hints and tips:
...According to Barry Humphries, the worst insult ever printed about him appeared in the Financial Times. I was the author....
...Surrounded by unpacked boxes of books, old gun cases from his army days and massy cobwebs like “arrested smoke”, he watches the sea stirring below, admiring the castle’s mock-Gothic architectural details...
...Robert ShrimsleyI mean, I think, you know, it’s very easy to mock some of this five-family stuff and all these ginger groups....
...One was the name Barry Jenkins on the credits, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight serving as a producer. “An amazing person to have in my corner,” enthuses Wells, who lives in New York....
...When she was 15, she got a job as a dancer at the Copacabana, the nightclub lionised by Barry Manilow....
...We could mock up an ice-floe at Pinewood Studios. And, you know what, the series didn’t have to be called Pole to Pole. Alliteration was not something I was prepared to die for....
...Barry Forshaw’s latest book is ‘Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...@nocontexthearn, an unofficial Twitter account run by “a guy called Andy from the NHS”, uses comedy clips of Hearn to mock current events....
...But Barry Black, a researcher at the university of Glasgow who drew attention to the disparity between grades in Scotland, said A-level results could bring a similar problem....
...The results expose concerns over the fairness of the system that replaced cancelled exams with predicted grades based on mock exams, coursework, and teacher assessment....
...even as they mock it....
...They built a lavish showroom that featured a full-scale mock-up of one of the units....
...Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon, by Barry Hatton, Hurst, RRP£14.99, 290 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...relentlessly, often through vehicles such as Keeping Up Appearances’ Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “Bouquet”), whose clumsy attempts at social climbing somehow seem to buttress the system they purport to mock...
...Legal Social Mobility Partnership In 2014 Barry Matthews decided to solve a problem he had faced as a teenager growing up on a council estate, which he saw being repeated in the next generation....
...The painful process of location scouting for Barry Lyndon (it was eventually filmed in Ireland) led to Adam being in hospital in a near breakdown....
...Newspapers in Japan, Holland and Germany put in requests to chat, and Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You call and ask to use his beer mats on the show....
...Curated by US writer Barry Schwabsky, the exhibition considers a subject at the heart of 20th- and 21st-century figuration: how representational painters had to revise their strategies in acknowledgment...
...Barry Obama, back at Harvard!” In Mitford’s circles, “talking shop” was considered an unforgivable bore. We need new social codes to sanction name-dropping....
...Glitzy and inorganic sports spectacles are easy to mock, especially from the position of lofty English anti-commercialism....
...The only dissenting voice came from Labour’s Barry Sheerman, who asked: “Isn’t it a little surprising that the leading banking nation on earth could not find a British candidate for the job?”...
...And not difficult to mock. Get used to that too! It was also rather wonderful. As the newcomers walked out into the wintry sunshine, they did so with broad smiles....
...“Oz”, for instance, mocks agribusiness, apathy and middle-American greed in garish colours and a cartoonish composition that wouldn’t have been out of place in a 1970s Mad magazine spread....
...Handling Edna, published last year, is a mock-memoir about his life as Dame Edna’s “manager”. As impersonated by a dragged-up Humphries, she made her debut on a Melbourne stage in 1955....
...“No,” protested Edith in mock-affront, “we wouldn’t dream of going to the 99-cent shop! [Perfectly timed pause:] We go to the euro shop.”...
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