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...It is hard not to marvel at Sorokin’s sordid mimicry of the great Russian authors — if you can imagine Anna Akhmatova was writing about “crimson . . . shaggy . . . hunchbacked” balls and Boris Pasternak...
...Ball Corporation, a US can and bottle manufacturer, had pledged to “honour [its] obligations” in Russia....
...Cameron Crowe once said to me, “Your life isn’t a tragedy, Courtney. Your life is La Dolce Vita.” I’m like, “I’m going with that”....
...Bogged down by the Aces defence, Stewart lobbed the ball around the key, where point guard Courtney Vandersloot pulled back for a 3-point attempt. No go. The buzzer sounds....
...“If you get obsessed with your own image and getting revenge when people say nasty things, you’re taking your eye off the ball.”...
...The Trump era is over and it’s anybody’s ball,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor who was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago three months ago....
...People,” growls McArthur’s ramrod stiff Darcy as he arrives at the local ball....
...Then we talk about the phenomenon of gentle parenting with my colleague, Courtney Weaver....
...On Monday Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an influential election forecast, moved Ms Collins’s race from a “toss-up” to “lean Democrat”....
...Luckily her owner Thea Courtney gave the two-year-old a loving home and she now spends her time leaping around in the woods and visiting the seaside....
...“Nobody else is being held accountable for their supporters,” said Krystal Ball, a progressive pundit who supports Mr Sanders....
...Krystal Ball, a progressive pundit who supported Mr Sanders in 2016, says the stereotype is unfair....
...Enormous flower arrangements and bowls with glass balls and other baubles had been banished....
...“If the radical Democrats take power, they will take a wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country,” he said....
...exhibition’s highlights include the Gibson SG guitar played by rock’n’roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wanda Jackson’s acoustic guitar, Joan Jett’s sticker-adorned Melody Maker, St Vincent’s signature Ernie Ball...
...“If you’re sitting at the other end of the table you’re not going to take it seriously,” said the aide, adding the US would find it hard to persuade Europe to “play ball”....
...One has attacked the other as a “slime ball”, “leaker” and “liar”....
...The same day that Mr Trump pardoned Mr Libby, he lashed out at Mr Comey on Twitter calling his former FBI head a “liar” and a “slime ball”....
...Courtney Weaver bids farewell to one of Washington’s latter-day bipartisan bromances: between retiring Republican senator Jeff Flake and his Democrat colleague Chris Coons....
...And we have the ball.” That stance has enthused some of Mr Rooney’s voters. But it has alienated others, highlighting the narrow line Republican lawmakers must navigate....
...courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...It’s named for Courtney Love.”...
...“Having failed to repeal the law in Congress, the president is sabotaging the system, using a wrecking ball to single-handedly rip apart our healthcare system,” said Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader...
...Just next to the office hangs a giant framed photograph of Ivanka and her husband, resplendent in glittering gown and black tie, dancing at January’s inaugural ball, with a felt-tip inscription from the...
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