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...With “Boycott Piece” (1971) — a refusal to talk to almost all women — these marked her choice of obscurity and silence until her death in Texas; she is buried there in an unmarked grave....
...Mountains in one of this season’s more unexpected festive shows: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol....
...That’s really borrowed from Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset versus fixed mindset....
...Pre-Covid, the army organised a carol service here each Christmas for those with links to the commandeered villages....
...The ghost of his dead partner Marley convinces Scrooge that wealth has no value beyond the grave. For the first time in his life he expresses regret for his lack of generosity....
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...ways from Dickens’ original is immediately clear from the opening shot of a snarling urchin peeing on the grave of Jacob Marley....
...“But it ruled us from the grave.” George Floyd’s suffocation by police last month is one of those rare moments where white America wakes up to how little has changed....
...late days of his marriage; the public readings; his open grave at Westminster Abbey....
...In fact, there is little doubt that McDermid has achieved that exalted position for her series of books featuring mismatched duo criminal profiler Tony Hill and Detective Carol Jordan. Further proof?...
...The 78-year-old lawyer has been more active than ever in recent months, hosting royalist lunches and dinners, and holding Christmas carols....
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...The first zombies are dealt with amusingly and bring more cameos — Carol Kane must have spent hours in make-up for her transformation; Iggy Pop perhaps not so much....
...Who is the gaunt young Frenchman who comes to visit the grave of the eponymous German soldier? What was the nature of their acquaintance?...
...“The slave law of the South may have been dead,” said one African-American writer, “but it ruled us from the grave.”...
...The December 24 broadcast of the service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge has become a British institution....
...The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has tended the graves of the war dead from the British empire impeccably for almost a century. Can it go on doing so for another 100 years, even indefinitely?...
...His son is killed at Loos and France becomes a place for “ceaseless, detailed work for the War Graves Commission”. In Through the Window, too, the themes become bleak....
...One senses the dead Hungarian clutching his stomach in his grave....
...Hide Me Among the Graves , by Tim Powers, Corvus, RRP£14.99 The sequel to Powers’ 1989 novel The Stress Of Her Regard offers the unlikely pairing of pre-Raphaelites and vampires....
...It might make Dumas spin in his grave, not to mention some feminists....
...The moral of this story is In grave financial trouble: Injecting soap makes things look clean But beware the coming bubble. And here for I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas....
...However, AFP, the news agency, cited Carol Joseph, a government minister, as saying that the authorities had buried 70,000 bodies in mass graves, In an assessment of the health issues faced in Haiti, the...
...The first, “William and Clare”, has a Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice structure – only here the line-up consists of Charles and Clare, William and Isabel....
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