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...Backed by a five-piece band, Murphy arrived in a voluminous, shaggy black wig and black fake-fur coat that left her resembling a rogue member of Mötley Crüe....
...Having started out as an offshoot from 1990s outfit Dub War (founded by frontman Benji Webbe in his native Newport, Wales), the band have steadily extended their reach over the years, being part of various...
...Ballads were never Sugababes’ forte, and a syrupy mid-set run of slower songs sagged....
...In 1950 he painted “No 5/No 22”, a red band tinting and deepening large panels of yellow above and orange beneath. This too was acquired by MoMA, and is loaned here....
...This gifted singer and showman, whom you might have seen perform on the Costa Smeralda, Forte dei Marmi or Annabel’s, is a sort of high-kicking Engelbert Humperdinck meets Elvis, Italian-style: all Cuban...
...The story goes that after releasing two tracks — which were admired and sampled by the likes of Beyoncé and Drake and covered by Ed Sheeran, leading to Paul working with OutKast’s Big Boi — a copy of his...
...She presses a clump of dough onto the thin band of metal and rolls it out, yielding a tube of pasta that is slightly thicker around the middle. “Più forte!” she says of my overly cautious attempts....
...He hired a band to play his daughter’s favourite song “Dancing in the Moonlight” as a surprise on the day. So he’s a bit of a softie? “I cry,” he acknowledges. “Not often, but I cry.”...
...The air of expectation surrounding the album proves something of a distraction, however. Grand statements are not its forte....
...clouds abstracted into sweeping horizontal bands, sold by Cleveland Museum; and “Antibes, the Fort”, with its melting pink-turquoise harmony, sold by Boston’s Museum of Fine Art....
...In 1959 they helped launch Pilote magazine, introducing readers to Asterix and his plucky band of warriors....
...Every weekday at that time a band strikes up — from salsa to the blues. This is truly the heart of Berkeley....
...One of the real problems with Paris is a lack of green space. So the Bois de Vincennes in the east or the Bois de Boulogne in the west are welcome escapes....
...Isle of Man residents have a more generous personal allowance of £14,000 before they start paying income tax at 10 per cent on the next £6,500 band of income. The top tax rate is just 20 per cent....
...Pucci has done a line of scarves with Rocco Forte, printed with illustrations of the Savoy hotel in Florence. A spokesman says they’re selling well....
...It was a deal that gave the buttoned-up bank a new managing director in Texas: William Hurley, a former IBM and Apple executive — and ex-bassist in a funk band — who goes by the name of “Whurley.”...
.... £20; dior.com An object I would never part with is a platinum ring by the late Parisian jeweller Alexandre Reza, with a horizontal diamond that lies flush with the whole band....
...After the break, the band continued to showcase their album with Escoffery’s spiky “Double Consciousness”, inspired by the work of African-American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois....
...His thick-rimmed glasses rhyming with the towel’s raspberry band, a blue daub lending fragility to the back of his skull, the radiant, fluid melange of strokes renders him sensual, exotic yet profoundly...
...Spotloan of Illinois, for example, which offers instant loans of up to $800 across 34 states, is owned by BlueChip Financial, an entity governed by the laws of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians...
...We remain negative on the banks with high steel exposure and corporate lenders, including SBI, PNB, ICICI and BOI. So, yeah, let us know. We’re a bit stuck....
...“Properties in the €750,000 to €1.8m price band — bought in the main by French nationals as their primary residence — have remained strong throughout,” says Harvey....
...“It was a very Conservative budget from a very Conservative chancellor,” said Nick de Bois, secretary of the 1922 backbench committee....
...of thousands of middle earners out of the higher tax band....
...Among the few victories for the committee’s old guard was the failure of core 301 candidate Charlie Elphicke to win a secretary position with the election of Nick de Bois, a non-301 candidate to the post...
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