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...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...
...On another bench, less than a mile away, sit Churchill and Roosevelt, immortalised in bronze bonhomie by her father, the sculptor Lawrence Holofcener....
...It has a cast including Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as astronomers, Meryl Streep playing a Trump-like president, Ariana Grande as a bandwagon-jumping celebrity, Mark Rylance as a rocket-launching...
...And you know, now, I guess I kind of say everything’s on the table,” says Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee....
...Dee Lawrence, who is 58, enrolled with Visible Start after discovering the course via Facebook....
...It took just six weeks for A Christmas Carol to hit the stage....
...The New Stone Age by Carol Woolton (£23) is published by Ten Speed Press. @carolwoolton...
...Some economists, notably Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary and adviser to Barack Obama, believe Biden is risking stagflation....
...The ingenious Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield created a brilliant hybrid theatre-film event to deliver the murder mystery What a Carve Up!...
...Letter in response to this column: Coronavirus lockdown is a time for contemplation / From Carol Symons, London NW8, UK...
...A full 17 years earlier, in 1997, Geoff Dyer published Out of Sheer Rage, the book he wrote about not writing a book about DH Lawrence....
...It dipped into the cabaret songs, together with a couple of carols and a choral piece, showing how skilful Bennett always was without delivering music that was truly individual....
...So I’d say it’s close to a toss up – you want to watch Lawrence of Arabia on a desert island? I don’t know, I’d see it once or twice and then start writing in the sand....
...Impressive female-led narratives do exist, of course — at the London Film Festival this week, Carol, Brooklyn, Room and the German feature Victoria were among them, as well as Suffragette....
...Lawrence of Arabia called it “the book of books.” 9. What is your favourite business book?...
...A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing, by Lawrence M Krauss, Free Press, RRP£17.99, 224 pages The pick of this year’s cosmology books so far....
...For the Globes, Stewart is dressing 22-year-old first-time nominee Jennifer Lawrence, a contender for Best Actress in a Film for Winter’s Bone....
...He is joined as energy co-ordinator by Carol Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton....
...Mr Chu, who is head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and a former head of the electronics research laboratory at Bell Labs, is considered highly qualified to be energy secretary...
...Then there is Lawrence Summers, who will head the National Economic Council, Jim Jones, the national security adviser, and John Brennan, who will co-ordinate homeland security....
...Environmental groups are jubilant at the two appointments and a sprinkling of others including that of Carol Browner, who is to co-ordinate energy and environmental policy from the White House....
...“I knew he wouldn’t look like the guy in the T-shirt, but I didn’t think he would look like the guy in the T-shirt’s grandfather,” said Carol Rosenberg, a Miami Herald reporter who likes to joke that she...
...His Jim is Peter O’Toole, bleached-blond and burned-out, who had already done his definitive Conrad turn in Lawrence of Arabia. (Lawrence was a Conrad character – he happened to be a living one.)...
...Measuring the World By Daniel KehlmannTranslated by Carol Brown Janeway Quercus £12.99, 272 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 This magnificent German bestseller has as its unlikely protagonists two of the...
...Carol Leonard, whose company Leonard Hull was acquired by Whitehead Mann in April, joins the board....
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