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...She originated iconic roles such as Anita in West Side Story, Velma Kelly in Chicago and Rose Alvarez in Bye Bye Birdie....
...“I’d like a Studio Nicholson café, a tea cup, ashtray, sofa, luggage. Purposeful. I don’t want frippery!”...
...camilla.cavendish@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Column articulates what we all experience every day / From Michael Hutchings, Sherborne, Dorset, UK If only my new washer performed like my...
...The album also sees collaborations with artists including Kojey Radical, Lianne La Havas and grime MC D Double E....
...Grime veteran D Double E appears on “For the Culture”, during which Sons of Kemet make the gleefully anarchic racket of a Balkan brass band at a Jamaican dancehall....
...For the accompanying film Daley commissioned a composition by Shabaka Hutchings, Lianne La Havas and members of Tomorrow’s Warriors, a talent development charity that supports young jazz artists....
...As soon as I’d done it, I scurried downstairs to find my other half. “I’ve just done a test on my sense of humour,” I told him. “Good,” he said. “Did you find one?” pilita.clark@ft.com...
...Tech tools — Agetech and Birdie Birdie’s pitch is a perfect example of boring but important tech, writes Jonathan Margolis....
...Data for 121 US tour professionals shows the average number of putts, successful one-putts and birdie conversions (one below par) have all improved compared with previous years....
...The owners, Margaret and Roger Hutchings, were targeting bookbuyers who “like to touch, feel and smell books”....
...“They’d sit in front of the fire with their ciggies and their cups of tea, just singing and playing.”...
...British band D’Influence followed, with the slinky, bass-heavy grooves that sustained their success in the 1990s....
...Hutchings’ tone was more abrasive than Parker’s when the music reached a peak, and wispier when the mood subsided....
...Better to focus on making the next birdie. Nike is following this playbook....
...“After that, we’d just do things in between sound checks and naturally started playing as a duo,” says Boyd. “Then we had a gig [as a trio] and the bass player bailed on us.”...
...They seem a little too conservative on the birdie putts.”...
...“We’d learn 20 songs a day,” Washington remembers. “Then Lauryn would piece them together, live, in a really random way.”...
...There are hundreds of paintings I’d love to own. Which book do you wish you’d written? Anything by Cormac McCarthy or John Fante....
...(It’s what the wry theatrical maid Birdie says in All About Eve.) … I thought of the highlights of my trip....
...Grasping Ms Hutchings at his side, he said it could be “good” that she was a loose cannon....
...The Tories were left reeling after their candidate, Maria Hutchings, trailed on 10,559....
...That perfect drive on the first hole at the K Club was followed by a pitch and a putt for perhaps the most remarkably assured birdie even in the long history of the Ryder Cup, a small but significant part...
...Soloists Shabaka Hutchings and Jay Phelps developed their own voice while all around threatened to disintegrate....
...In 2008, two police officers turned up to escort to safety twin sisters who’d been spotted walking down the central reservation of the M6....
...Shabaka Hutchings led the line with contemplative bass clarinet and spiritual tenor saxophone – he has mastered circular breathing and split harmonics....
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