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...March 15 to 26; further information and tickets here ‘Hopelessly Devoted: A Celebration of Olivia Newton-John’, Hamer Hall Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to the late Australian singer, whose niece...
...“No sane candidate would treat the debate as unimportant,” Bob Shrum, longtime Democratic strategist and now director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California, told...
...But Flood, from Newton, is wary of giving Blackstone too easy a path to snap up the catalogues cheaply....
...His end-of-season wrap-up essays became mandatory reading, as did his profiles of the actors, such as the intimidating St Louis Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson of the 1960s and 1970s....
...Bob Costello, chief economist at American Trucking Associations, said the number of drivers in general freight in the US had dropped to 430,000, down from 465,000 people at the start of 2020....
...Near the start of Human Resources, a new podcast from Broccoli Productions, the journalist and presenter Moya Lothian-McLean recalls the words of Bob Marley in “Buffalo Soldier”: “If you know your history...
...Related Links:From Bob Dylan to Blondie — why investors are buying up hit songs — FTTaylor Swift’s asset restructuring — FT Alphaville...
...Other politicians in the list were Bob Neill, Tory MP for Bromley & Chislehurst, who becomes a knight while Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, is now a dame....
...Others include Olivia Newton-John, the star of the movie Grease, who becomes a dame for her charity work. Sam Mendes, who directed the films American Beauty and Skyfall, is made a knight....
...Eccie Newton, co-founder of Karma Kitchen, likens her concept to “WeWork for kitchens”, renting out space to different businesses at different times of day....
...Photographs courtesy of Winsor & Newton...
...One of the world’s best-loved hymns is “Amazing Grace” — and it has surprising origins: it was written by a former slave-ship captain, John Newton, whose redemptive poem was set to a popular melody, later...
...The UK’s representative consumer is apparently called BoB — thoroughly Bored of Brexit....
...Bob Greifeld is stepping down as the chief executive of Nasdaq, bringing to an end a 14-year tenure in which he had transformed the high-profile US exchange....
...They talked about poetry, Dennis Potter’s television series The Singing Detective, Bob Fosse’s film musical All That Jazz, photography, books (“The guy just read everything”)....
...(Ripping apart pictures is practically an Irish musical tradition: Bob Geldof famously did this to John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John when The Boomtown Rats displaced them from the top of the charts.)...
...For the photographer Helmut Newton, she became a lacquer-lipped siren of 1970s sensuality. More latterly she posed nude at the Louvre for Juergen Teller....
...“[Isaac] Newton looked at apples falling from a tree because apples gave Newton a lot of very good data to test his theory [of gravity],” says Palacios-Huerta....
...This, they explain, distinguishes the Netherlands’ second-largest city from the biggest: “In Amsterdam they talk a lot but here we get things done,” says Bob Jansen, a start-up mentor and founder of local...
...“It’s like people saying they would up sticks and move to Frankfurt — it didn’t happen when we didn’t join the euro,” said Helena Morrissey, chief executive of Newton Investment Management....
...I bought it from Preattoni, an old shop that sells beautifully made bits and bobs. Via Della Spiga 52, 20121 Milan (+3902-7600 1059; www.preattoni.it)....
...As one shareholder asked at the AGM, surely there must be some link between recent losses and executive pay, even if Bob Dudley can’t control the oil price?...
...And he has hemmed himself in on rates, so he is scrabbling around for all sorts of bits and bobs....
...Bob Fletcher, head of retail at Sanderson Weatherall, a property consultancy, says there is a hierarchy, depending on local wealth. He has let units in Peterlee, a new town in County Durham....
...My own favourites are influenced by an early 1990s youth and, latterly, the Christmas special of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour....
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