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...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...Popular and prolific post-minimalist composer Jonathan Dove has never been shy of strange subjects. His breakout 1998 opera Flight was set in an airport terminal....
...The architecture critic Charles Jencks called Goff “the Michelangelo of kitsch”, which is a little harsh but not off the mark....
...And while these are not the glamorous epithets one might typically associate with loved ones, Camilla has emerged as the voice of normalcy and reason in the strange and fractious Windsor house....
...By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...Michael Stott Some of the numbers look rather strange when you start to dig into them....
...The most obscure bill is the pedicabs (London) bill — a strange priority for a government in its final year....
...Charles Dickens could stride for miles at night and never worry about a thing; George Sand had to dress as a man to do the same....
...It is extraordinary,” Charles Elson, a governance expert at the University of Delaware, told me this week....
...Quinn’s tough guys in cowboy hats, “Homeboy Down the Block” (2018), “Buck Nasty: Player Haters Ball” (2017), “Charles Re-visited” (2015), are split apart, turned inside out, fractured, while “Father Stretch...
...You play a hero awakening in a strange land full of magic and mystery....
...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...But one wonders how long it will be before someone adapts the text for King Charles....
...It created this strange, queasy light and the sense of it not being a healthy place.” Joe and Gracie aren’t in a healthy place....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...It was very strange.” One by one, Akrach covered the bodies with shrouds from navel to knee....
...jemima.kelly@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Trump’s humour and a comedy of unawareness / From Charles D Collins, Rochester, NY, US Did Lincoln read ’em and weep with laughter?...
...Two other US soldiers defected in 1965: Corporal Jerry Parrish and Charles Jenkins, a sergeant who wanted to avoid being sent to fight in Vietnam....
...It’s dark and out of focus, yet that lack of sharpness lends the image a strange timelessness. It could be a bunker from the first world war, the second world war, Vietnam or Korea....
...It is an exhortation Britons will get used to saying, even if after 70 years of a Queen it sounds strange on the lips....
...Many — very many are — by the late strange Railway System deprived almost of their daily bread.” That phrase — the late strange Railway System — speaks vividly of the bewilderment investors felt....
...How concerning does Gebru really think it is that people have these strange beliefs?...
...Robert ShrimsleyI think it’s all very strange and maybe they assumed there’d be a two-minute conversation about it and it got out of hand....
...“It’s like there is some strange history to them,” she says. Barcelona-based Anne-Laure Cano says that her stacking sculptures “look more like they have been found than made”....
...Barlow, by contrast, was using “paint and colour and soft forms, [which] meant that she was doing something very different”, producing pieces which had bright familiar component parts but ended up strange...
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