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...Mary Celeste Beall, proprietor of Blackberry Farm “A year after [my husband] Sam died, someone said ‘you have to put your cape on first’....
...Anne Marie reminds Nora that poverty drove her to leave her own child to care for Nora and her children: a move that enabled Nora’s choice....
...Marshall, the Foreign Office employee turned whistleblower, claimed that at various points he was alone dealing with a huge case of emails in “a Foreign Office that was effectively a Marie Celeste”, Tugendhat...
...With self-quarantining leading to lots of us cleaning out our cupboards, Emma Jacobs talks (via Zoom) with tidying queen Marie Kondo about her new book, Joy at Work....
...They were hauntingly empty, a kind of vast Marie Celeste: I half-expected to glimpse unfinished meals on the tables through the cracked shop windows, which still have that specific 1950s pre-computerised...
...This is the Provençal aesthetic that French hotelier Jocelyne Sibuet nailed in 2000 with La Bastide de Marie, her retreat in fashionable Lubéron....
...At the far end is a Marie Celeste of a boardroom, an eerie, glass-walled enclave with a table encircled by huge swivel chairs. They are empty today, but the recovery centres are regularly busy....
...It was a social sleight of hand worthy of the Marie Celeste....
...“Leurs visages étaient célestes,” Le Brun raved, with features “so fine and delicate that you would have believed they lived on ambrosia”....
...This is the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) or, more picturesquely, Marie Celeste syndrome, and scientists, farmers – and journalists – have been worrying about it for several years now...
...But either the accusers are wrong or governments are deaf, since most once-busy hives, we learn, still end up resembling the Marie Celeste. Solution? We should all think of taking up beekeeping....
...“The place is empty: it’s like the Marie Celeste out there,” Mr Hayward says....
...AIG and Pepsi-Cola are vastly improved, if still far from great: AIG’s customer-facing areas are now slick but its corporate area has an air of the Marie Celeste....
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