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...A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall (Allen Lane/Metropolitan Books) A compelling and detailed account of a small tragedy in the West Bank that illuminates the larger tragedy of Palestinians...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...Enter AA Milne’s dim but loveable Pooh, followed by Rupert, Paddington et al. Why “teddy” bears?...
...al could borrow influence from her ancestral homeland, she “certainly . . ....
...That was one of the conclusions reached by Ratschen et al in their study “Human-animal relationships and interactions during the Covid-19 lockdown phase in the UK”....
...As such, it began to mirror the tumultuous developments in architecture (arts nouveau and deco), music (ragtime and jazz), the performing arts (Josephine Baker, Diaghilev et al) and painting (fauvism, cubism...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Three weeks ago, a walk through St Mark’s Square felt like entering a Canaletto — a smattering of mostly Venetians, countable on two hands, bells pealing, the Giudecca canal close to empty....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...A decade ago, I was sitting in my university bedroom listening to James Levine conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Her work has been shown in major museums around the world, so the name “Sackler” rang a very loud bell....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Al Marasy, Ground Level, Building 3, Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi (+971-2304 8187)....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...But I have a life, and the job is part of it. I have friends. I have a family. I have a wife, kids. My job is not the only thing.”...
...Sword swallowers, contortionists, snake charmer, fire breather, bearded lady, little people et al — welcome to the new production of Così fan tutte, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday....
...Tops were furnished with huge bell sleeves, like a highwayman dandy. There were slick tuxedos with angular lapels....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...“He’s been a winner all his life.”...
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