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...Described by Blanchard as “opera in jazz”, this powerful adaptation of Charles M Blow’s painful coming-of-age memoir returns with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Charles....
...The regional banks “are in a really difficult position”, said Blake Gwinn, head of rates strategy at RBC....
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...“This looks like gambling rather than hedging against interest rate or inflation risks,” said David Blake, a pensions professor at the Bayes Business School in London....
...This year, The Folio Society has been celebrating 75 years since Charles Ede founded it in 1947. Ede believed that commercial books could – and should – be produced to the highest standards....
...The timing of King Charles III’s coronation, in the immediate aftermath of the local polls, delayed a postmortem....
...controversial candidates for the Senate include political novices Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician running in Pennsylvania, and JD Vance, the venture capitalist and author competing in Ohio as well as Blake...
...Some of [Blake’s] lyrics are very savage. We performed ‘London Song’ [based on Blake’s poem ‘London’] in St Giles church in Soho....
...They depict Uncle Charles “Chicka” Madden and his granddaughter Lille Madden, a climate youth activist....
...It would be very hard to exaggerate the prominence and influence of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts in American culture during the cold war....
...I do not even play them the bassoon, as Charles Darwin encouraged his son to do. But I can rely on their efforts....
...five days after the rebel leader Charles Taylor’s forces ambushed the freight train on which he was travelling....
...Sex, art and religion are its themes, obsessively circled in a centuries-spanning narrative told in a breathless register somewhere between William Blake and Arthur C Clarke....
...I wish Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey, had displayed the same good sense and scepticism in his massive, 921-page account of the writer’s life, Philip Roth: A Biography....
...“There is a distinction between the haves and the have-nots,” said Cooper Howard, the director of fixed income strategy at Charles Schwab....
...It will also go way beyond Blake....
...Given this gap, Kathy Jones, chief fixed-income strategist at Charles Schwab, said the Treasury department will need to pay up to sell its long-dated debt. “The demand will be there,” she said....
...Artists, as Blake wrote of Milton, tend to be “of the Devils’ party without knowing it”. Sin, more fun to depict than virtue, offers scope for painterly ambivalence....
...His brand is one of only three invitees — the other two are AZ Factory, the new venture of former Lanvin creative director Alber Elbaz, and young designer Charles de Vilmorin, great-nephew of the writer...
...Similarly, Philip Roth (Jonathan Cape, April) by Blake Bailey is the first major portrayal of the novelist, who granted the author full access and independence before his death in 2018....
...Quentin Blake’s illustrations have lost none of their charm....
...I search in vain for Paris,” wrote the poet Charles Valette) and Dinocrates’ ancient Alexandria....
...Ms Decker said “no one believes” that Mr Blake should have been shot, but that she and her neighbours “saw the carnage and destruction in [Kenosha] and how outnumbered law enforcement was”....
...The hand is that of fate, of course, but also another soldier, Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), doughily cherubic, casually picking a second for an unknown errand....
...If Charles Dodgson struck contemporaries as an unlikely source for this kind of mischief, his early life was in many ways a training for it....
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