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...His championing of Michael Tippett’s music, following years of neglect after the composer’s death in 1998, is a notably good deed....
...Cong played an important role in a partnership between ICBC and China Renaissance....
...Squire Patton Boggs has hired Michael Wray as of counsel in its litigation practice group, based in Houston. He joins from UK law firm HFW....
...“Moment in Between the Rest (To Curve an Ache)”, a waltz, reprised the mood two numbers on....
...“The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says. “I can imagine them hiding behind a camouflage net in the parallel aisles.”...
...Michael Caine famously bought a new house with his fee for making Jaws 4. What Anthony Hopkins splashed out on after completing The Virtuoso remains unknown....
...Rami Malek’s Noh-mask-wearing Safin promises an improvement on poor Christoph Waltz, the sockless Blofeld of Spectre....
...Mr Raab told MPs: “Those with blood on their hands, the thugs of despots, the henchmen of dictators, won’t be free to waltz into this country, to buy up property on the Kings Road, do their Christmas shopping...
...China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, warned Canada of “very firm countermeasures” if any sanctions are imposed....
...The real joy, though, comes when the two of them harmonise: on the gorgeous “Something Is Slipping My Mind” — a delicate country waltz — they sing together like a mixed-sex, north London Everly Brothers:...
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...China also continues to detain two Canadians, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor. Their arrests are widely seen as retaliation for Ms Wanzhou’s arrest....
...“You cannot choose your family, oh,” she sings on “Dogwood”, lambent piano ballad in waltz time. “There’s nothing we can do but screw and booze and amphetamines . . ....
...Dando was so sweet she even had a crush on Cliff Richard, and we see the clip of her being pranked by him during a live broadcast, giggling as she is swept away in a waltz....
...Additional reporting by Michael Peel in Brussels...
...His previous album, last year’s Ballet, twinned his lean lines and brassy sound with the space-conscious resonance of Bill Frisell’s guitar on a live-recorded tribute to the composer Michael Gibbs....
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...compellingly overwrought lyricism (“A crude art, a bovver-boot ballet — equally elegant and ugly,” Thorpe sang on “Hooting & Howling”; “I was as thrilled as I was appalled, courting him in fisticuffing waltz...
...“Foameopathy” delivered an astute blend of heavy groove and floaty jazz; the romantic waltz “Spring Song” featured musicianly vocals and a knockout solo from Hays....
...It began with growls, slurs and haunting upper register lines before a sweet melody cued the band into a soft-centred waltz....
...Tall upright shelves waltz in and out of each other’s paths and around stationary storage units, weaving backwards, forwards or sideways without touching....
...To jaded voters on the left and right, he is the ultimate Washington insider, a man whose seamless waltz between business and politics has fuelled resentment at an incestuous system....
...Its complicated action takes place mostly in odd corners of the Vietnam war, where US psy-ops attempt without official approval to break not only the morale but the sense of reality of the Viet Cong, seeding...
...The five Gibbs compositions range from the waltz-flavoured title track to the off-kilter blues “Blue Comedy”....
...Dang Cong Ngu ruled a South China Sea archipelago for Vietnam for five years — but never once set foot in the place....
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