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...Joyce Carol Oates is stunned to find me at the restaurant. Just minutes before, she was told that all the trains between New York and Princeton, New Jersey, had been cancelled....
...Stan gives an unnerving performance as a man uncomfortable in his own skin, and writer-director Schimberg extends the story’s ironies with the introduction of a winning and witty British interloper, Oswald...
...A few of the stories reframe Christmas folklore (a witty take on the King Wenceslas carol is particularly entertaining), while several others are set in a town called Blackbury in the county of Gritshire...
...The contrast is turned to witty effect, though the words do not always fit the rhythms of the music....
...A marinière top in nude tulle with stripes made from navy satin ribbons worn with a sailor cap in duchesse satin was a witty flourish....
...They reveal his desire, his widow Leslie Smolan writes, to make the world “more romantic, more witty, more human, more interesting – more lasting”....
...But, in essence, this is about sitting back and basking in numbers such as “I Only Have Eyes for You” and “Lullaby of Broadway” and warming your hands on the sparks raised by Bill Deamer’s witty choreography...
...Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015) is a different creature. Adapting a 1952 lesbian-love novel, it’s faithful to the book in never hitting the Highsmith highs....
...This witty, scathing, yet fair account from one of the top journalists covering the sector shows how it ended up breaking the world instead....
...Dominic Cooke’s deftly paced production pulls you into Halder’s mind and memory and features a mesmerising performance from David Tennant: witty, humane, chillingly self-deceptive....
...My then-husband was less than impressed and followed with a J-cloth, wiping away my attempts. Harsh but fair: ours wasn’t that sort of house....
...He was also the personification of the New Yorker magazine: literate, witty and quirky....
...These hybrid bench/planter/pedestrianisation devices were originally developed in San Francisco as a witty way of recolonising parking spaces and they have taken off in a big way across the world....
...God’s Favorite Customer made witty play with the idea of personal breakdown, but the risk of artistic burnout was real....
...At 94, he’s not as steady on his feet as he once was, but his witty sense of humour and bon vivant spirit more than compensate. Among his contributions to the collection is a multicoloured pepper mill....
...It is witty and sexy and maximalist. “I’ve been designing for 60 years,” he says. “I went from school straight into the film studios....
...John J Parman moesbooks.com Molho, Thessaloniki “My wife and I visited it in 2000 and spent a memorable hour with René Molho herself....
...Having spent nearly 30 years in the advertising industry in Australia, she had been regional director of J Walter Thompson in south-east Asia and had run her own agency....
...Jonathan Church’s staging is witty and fleet, but the approach makes for bitty, unsatisfying drama and works against proper engagement with the ever-changing roster of band-members or even Faye herself....
...In his introduction, editor Jesse J Holland describes the importance to him of Black Panther, and others like him, as “an unapologetic, proud, intelligent paragon of Blackness, our personal King Arthur”....
...Letter in response to this article: Happiness is accepting that perfection is impossible / From Dr Dipak J Kanabar, London W13, UK...
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...He, Selznick and director Carol Reed were discussing the cinematic classic-to-be that the American mogul was about to produce....
...In 17 Church Row , James Carol (Zaffre, RRP£7.99) riffs on our uneasy relationship with technology....
...LS Lowry’s matchstick men and women on streets and parks shadowed by factories (“VE Day”, “A Football Match”, “Mill Scene”) are witty descendants of Monet’s “black licking marks”....
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