Hints and tips:
...Like the women from London, Charles Drinkwater first visited Corrour just before conflict broke out, in June 1939....
...And I like a very low-key brand from Singapore called Charles & Keith. I don’t do skinny heels....
...The trout rises to sip in a dun that is passing above it. I wait for the fish to settle, and cast....
...At Sea Ranch Lodge, now reimagined by Mithun architects and interior designer Charles de Lisle, we curiously poked around the wood-clad lounge, with slanted ceilings and rounded green couches....
...Charles Townshend’s recent book The Partition cites an intriguing example of pre-partition Sinn Féin debate, when its future president Father Michael O’Flannagan did grasp the issue....
...To be fair, most of the deals that have come to market this year with aggressive terms, including electronic health provider Athenahealth and data analytics group Dun & Bradstreet, were inked many months...
...The Outer Hebrides are littered with ancient standing stones, burial mounds, fortified brochs and duns. At noon, in true Hebridean style, the sky miraculously cleared....
...The house was owned by the late PJ Mara, the flamboyant spin-doctor for three-time Irish Taoiseach, or prime minister, Charles Haughey....
...The evening began with a bit of cosy gimmickry courtesy of the habitually innovative Tan Dun....
...I am waist-high amid rough dun grasses when Charles Frewen begins to shout. Gesticulating excitedly, he points to a gnarled bush of waving tendrils, its tallest branch barely a metre from the ground....
...Charles Darwin, who landed here in 1836, found its fauna bewildering and colonial artists took more than a generation to paint the landscape accurately, having initially rendered the gum trees as mutated...
...When Dun & Bradstreet bought it for $1.7bn in 1988, he had made his own fortune. Louis-Dreyfus relaxed on Swiss ski slopes, but got bored. In 1989, Saatchi came calling....
...Says Karen – an infant school teacher – “so do what I do: drink half a bottle of vodka and you’re out – what happens in between dun’t matter”....
...But on screen the witchy-whimsical tale of interchangeable pregnancies among two women (Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson), sequestered in an ensorcelled countryside shot in dun colours, never catches a tide...
...As for more unusual names, a fair number of Dun Roamins cropped up. But the researchers were most puzzled by the origin of a name given to houses by nearly 100 of its customers: “Llamedos”....
...And they indulge: not only in Chopin, Lizst and modern composers such as Tan Dun or Charles Ives, but also in rap, jazz, funk, blues and Chinese traditional forms....
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