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...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
US bank’s efforts to reduce expenses pressured by fewer employees leaving voluntarily
...Based on Nathan W Pyle’s bestselling graphic novel of the same name, the series is co-written by Pyle and Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty)....
...and employees of NatWest feel unsafe....
...— Burning tyres and bridges: US residents shocked by firm’s bitcoin-mining plan (The Guardian) — Better, Faster, Stronger (NYRB $) — Grievance and reform (PW’s Polycrisis) — W*ke Capital (LRB, metered...
...Popular and prolific post-minimalist composer Jonathan Dove has never been shy of strange subjects. His breakout 1998 opera Flight was set in an airport terminal....
...He still loved advertising, he assured me, and he is still working at W+K....
...The architecture critic Charles Jencks called Goff “the Michelangelo of kitsch”, which is a little harsh but not off the mark....
...And while these are not the glamorous epithets one might typically associate with loved ones, Camilla has emerged as the voice of normalcy and reason in the strange and fractious Windsor house....
...By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...Michael Stott Some of the numbers look rather strange when you start to dig into them....
...The most obscure bill is the pedicabs (London) bill — a strange priority for a government in its final year....
...Charles Dickens could stride for miles at night and never worry about a thing; George Sand had to dress as a man to do the same....
...It is extraordinary,” Charles Elson, a governance expert at the University of Delaware, told me this week....
...Andrew Grossman, appearing on behalf of petitioners Charles and Kathleen Moore, argued that the US Constitution only gave the federal government powers to tax income....
...Quinn’s tough guys in cowboy hats, “Homeboy Down the Block” (2018), “Buck Nasty: Player Haters Ball” (2017), “Charles Re-visited” (2015), are split apart, turned inside out, fractured, while “Father Stretch...
...You play a hero awakening in a strange land full of magic and mystery....
...Most urgently, agitatedly depicted is Stella West (“Head of E.O.W”), who modelled for Auerbach three nights a week in her Earl’s Court basement....
...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...But one wonders how long it will be before someone adapts the text for King Charles....
...Then I read Letters from Iceland, a strange and subversive book mixing poetry, pastiche, reportage and packing lists, about a trip the poet WH Auden made to Iceland with his friend Louis MacNeice in 1936...
...Bone Music edited by Stephen Coates (Strange Attractor Press) Picture discs were a thing in my youth but this is something different....
...And though it is a strange, and admittedly arbitrary, endeavour, it is one that growing numbers of travellers are undertaking....
...W.J....
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