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...Joyce Carol Oates’ Zero-Sum (Fourth Estate, 9 hrs 45 mins), presented by an array of highly proficient readers, offers tense narratives, variously filled with tales of seduction, revenge and — in the collection...
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...McDonald’s was among companies including Kimberly-Clark, the Kleenex tissue maker, which said they were passing on the increased costs to customers by raising prices....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark...
...says their best-selling Department 56 products are part of a range that depict characters from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, one film in a 1980s series starring actor Chevy Chase as the hapless Clark...
...Pilita Clark, the FT’s business commentator, thinks not....
...Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark...
...What else we’re reading Lunch with the FT: Carol Dweck Psychologist and Stanford professor Carol Dweck may not be a household name, but her research into what she came to call “growth mindset” and “fixed...
...Sir, Further to Pilita Clark’s column on music in the office (March 5): when I was a young accountant in the 1960s, working in clients’ offices in Michigan, we were invariably regaled with carols for at...
...“All our clients are reviewing their plans for this,” said Carol Lynch, partner with accounting firm BDO in Dublin....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark Letters in response to this column: Office Christmas carols began in November / From James Macdonald, Ickleton, Cambs, UK Trendy Egg’s irritating music was...
...“The market today is extremely liquid in terms of funding for the power sector and for well-structured projects but nuclear has a different risk profile,” said Carol Gould, managing director at MUFG Bank...
...Like a 15-rated update of Larry Clark’s notorious indie hit Kids, it stars Sunny Suljic as a young teen who is embraced by a gang of skaters....
...The carol “Some Children See Him”, written in 1951, was a celestial celebration of racial equality....
...This year’s carol was composed by Johan Hugosson and set to words from Dr Hannah Burrows’ adaption of three medieval rune poems from Scandinavia and the British Isles....
...Certainly, female artists have never been slow to make their own versions of the carol, from Petula Clark in 1958 (the record, A Christmas Carol, was one of the first stereo releases), Nat King Cole’s daughter...
...He made his name as both; by the 1930s, TS Eliot and Kenneth Clark alike hailed his “genius”....
...“I’m not sure anyone buys much in mobile phone shops,” Ms Clark says, “but they show you what is there to be bought online”....
...And when the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, was looking for a new carol for last month’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, they turned to Musgrave....
...The December 24 broadcast of the service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge has become a British institution....
...This year’s Christmas carol, specially commissioned by the FT, was written by 15 year-old Thomas Fetherstonhaugh....
...Clark’s version was regarded as seminal high culture for the masses, and was seminally skewed....
...Davies, represented by his fragrant “Fleecy Care Carol”....
...Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion)...
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