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...When cousin Greg brings a girl to media titan Logan Roy’s birthday and she turns up with a giant gauche Burberry handbag, Greg’s boss Tom Wambsgans exclaims, “What’s even in there, huh?...
...The overshirt has its roots in mid-19th-century workwear; a close cousin of the bleu de travail, a hardy yet lightweight canvas jacket worn by labourers to keep their civvies clean at work....
...Each episode is accompanied by a talk on the questions raised and also by a five-minute wordless soundscape (created by sound designer Graham Wild and producer Becky Ripley)....
...“The Sea Is A Woman” is a cousin of Robert Wyatt’s “Sea Song”, previously memorably covered by The Unthanks....
...Illustration by Becky Strange White Tears, by Hari Kunzru, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95, 288 pages...
...The climax was “Tick Tock Goes the Clock”, a Calypso cousin of “Desolation Row”, which is to say a musical modernist tour through a Waste Land of literary allusions, with saxophone and trombone providing...
...Guterson, best known as author of the popular Snow Falling On Cedars, tells that tale engrossingly – Diane’s Becky Sharp-style progress through US society being the best of it....
...He has a two-week internship in December, at an underwriting firm in London where his cousin works, before he flies to Havana on January 5....
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