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...The past fortnight has seen Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California and Beth Steel’s Till the Stars Come Down open on the London stage....
...He also attacked Bush Sr’s threat to withdraw US loan guarantees if Israel went ahead with settlements in the occupied territories....
...Nathan Hill’s doorstopper, Wellness. I’ve read it and have an opinion (very favourable). I strive to stay relevant: The Last Dinner Party’s “Nothing Matters” is a near-perfect pop song....
...And I have an Eames daybed-like one that they made for the director Billy Wilder, who used it for napping on movie sets....
...“Maids”, an affectionate waltz, came next, and then a ballad, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s “Isfahan”, articulated roundly with vibrato and slurs....
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...Three albums from this period — Burton’s A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967), Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra (1970) and Escalator Over the Hill (1971), a jazz opera (or “chronotransduction”) that she wrote...
...“The Aldabra can live for 250 years,” says Billy Nemours, a manager at the reserve, as we take a tour. “And I’ve seen some sleep for five days.”...
...It offers an easy entry into the forest without the need to scale large hills and can be completed in less than an hour....
...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...From there, the company just kept making hits: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Billy Elliot, Fargo, Notting Hill, Senna, Shaun of the Dead. The list goes on, but we all have busy lives....
...The man will seemingly do anything for sex (Stormy Daniels, Billy Bush); money (Deutsche Bank, Trump Foundation); or power (the Zelenskyy call, January 6)....
...What looks like something out of a movie or a cartoon is really happening,” says Billy Nolen, acting head of the US Federal Aviation Administration....
...(Billy Nauman) Republicans split with asset managers over SEC ESG disclosure rules The Investment Company Institute is one of the largest lobbying organisations for asset managers....
...Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) by Ron Chernow: “In these days of great angst about the free market, I recommend this captivating biography of an archetypical capitalist, who built a storied fortune on hard work...
...“Emily”, a waltz, references impressionist jazz, whereas Billy Hill’s cowboy-flavoured “Call of the Canyon” ends the album quietly and jogs along through shaded voicings and shimmering lines. ★★★★☆ ‘Squint...
...enjoy the steeper climb up Broomfield Hill....
...Rus in urbe perfectly described SRs in London, with their green Barbours and Puffa jackets....
...Billy.Nauman@ft.com...
New York’s lunchtime rush has been replaced by all-day hush
...(Billy Nauman) UK companies’ dividend payment dilemma Here’s a moral conundrum for C-suites in the era of Covid-19: should companies that used furlough support schemes refund taxpayers before restarting...
...But 34,000 people have signed an online petition against a permanent security fence on the Hill, which they say would punish local residents and visitors alike....
...Members of the Financial Times’ Moral Money team Gillian Tett and Billy Nauman, along with Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor, answered your questions about the impact of coronavirus on corporate sustainability...
...“Johnson pinballs around, like Billy Bunter in the tuck shop,” he adds, “Grabbing handfuls of sweets, not sure how he can pay for them but confident he can find his way out of whatever fix he’s landing himself...
...After dinner, it is time to hike up the 235-metre hill that leads to the Temple of Athena at the top of an acropolis that crowns Assos....
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