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...Like, there’s a point where a grave digger is showing the doctor around and he says, every small town has a story like this, referring to the six-year-old who chopped up his sister....
..., Old Babes in the Wood (Penguin Audio, 8hrs 42mins), when actor Dan Stevens becomes George Orwell — long dead but rather unexpectedly fruity-voiced and cheerful, and joining the author from beyond the grave...
...Read about the life of the man who became known as the “Grave Dancer”....
...Out of this hideous material Whitehead conjures an exceptional novel that brings to life the racial oppression of the Jim Crow era through the fate of his central character, Elwood Curtis....
...“You will take this to your grave,” the trio chorused, “all your words will fly away” — and then the melodic lines also flew apart. Polwart whispered the names of trees like a roll-call of the dead....
...America’s most controversial general since Curtis LeMay, that zealous bomber of things, is now a gracious suburban host of 64....
...South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in warns of the “grave threat” posed by its northern neighbour....
...As the outcry against Wolf’s jokes gathered momentum last week, though, I could sense Joan Rivers turning in her grave....
...Any such trouble would be bad for economic confidence, among other grave problems that might result....
...Now it is in grave danger; it may already have been damaged or looted. No one is sure because no one has been there....
...Year-on-year chronology, says Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, is “a neutral search tool”, disabling curators from imposing textbook schools and “isms” that are outdated and narrow....
...“I really don’t think there is a correlation,” says Charles Curtis MW, Christie’s head of sales for Asia....
...This is often something that is particularly British that stretches either from cradle to grave or morning to night and might feature a working class everyman – a mourning for lost ideals, a stinging criticism...
...Not so Touching from a Distance, an account of how Joy Division singer Ian Curtis followed his idols into an early grave. Curtis recorded just two albums before committing suicide....
...“The long-term performance [of casino stocks] has been very strong,” says Tom Graves, gaming analyst with Standard & Poor’s....
...China is taking a grave risk in insisting that Japan simply capitulate to its demands if it wants to reduce tensions. It is in China?s interest to have the world believe it is engaged in a ?...
...“It is not in US interests to see Sino-Japanese tensions growing,” says Prof Curtis....
...But Curtis’s relief at their safe passage has an added level of satisfaction; for until they arrived just three days ago, there were grave doubts that they would be able to take their place in the exhibition...
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