Hints and tips:
...The routine, D’Elia tells me, was unbreakable....
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...The high point begins and ends with Mann....
...And it seemed strange to me that I’d never found a film that dealt with the desire between two men. That’s why I was interested in tackling this subject.”...
...they’d ask me. “How can they charge so little compared with everywhere else in London?”...
...Stephen Witherford, director of Witherford Watson Mann Architects, who designed the building, is visibly excited by my interaction with the passengers on the bus....
...Everyone has them, they’re not as unique as you’d think, and people are much more enthusiastic about studying their own than anyone else’s....
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...“If we hadn’t had Brexit and Covid, we’d have talked more about demographics lowering growth rates over the past five years.”...
...But the preoccupation with personal carbon footprints, I’d argue, is leading the climate conversation in strange and, in some cases, disturbing directions. This is most conspicuous among the young....
...If you want some idea of a way forward, I’d recommend the Weekend essay on what the Cold War taught us about containing Russia....
...June 30-August 26, santafeopera.org JULY Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France Aix’s venerable opera festival is setting off multiple fireworks for its 75th anniversary — a hotly anticipated world premiere...
...“I didn’t know I’d become a film-maker at all.”...
...Thomas Mann charts the decline of a grand family in Buddenbrooks, as does Anton Chekhov in The Cherry Orchard, but each drama is over a century old....
...His brains, drive and love of 19th-century literature — he was said to hire people purely on the back of a shared love for Anthony Trollope, TS Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Mann — could have helped...
...Habeck was born in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck, birthplace of the writer Thomas Mann, and grew up in a well-heeled suburb of Kiel on the Baltic coast, where his parents ran a pharmacy....
...More than alright is There’d Better Be A Mirrorball, the first single in the Arctic Monkeys’ new record, The Car....
...The typographer Jan Tschichold, historian Golo Mann and playwright Max Frisch all lived — separately — in Berzona....
...of Hate: Europe on the Brink of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies, translated by Simon Pare (Profile) More interwoven history — this time from the 1930s, featuring Marlene Dietrich, Vladimir Nabokov and Mann...
...British border agents ask Mann to explain a seating plan full of German names that is found in his notebook....
...Guests including D’Arcy Carden (Janet in The Good Place), Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and the singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, whose music helped our host through the hard times, gamely appear to help him work through...
...for assembly seats in Northern Ireland Friday Belgium, government ministers set to end the last Covid measures, notably the wearing of masks on public transport Bank of England MPC member Catherine Mann...
...It’s less fun (for her) than you’d imagine, but lots of fun for us....
...I’d started a monthly newsletter, daringly called Drinker’s Digest, in 1977. The Consumers’ Association bought it in 1980 and turned it into the annual The “Which?” Wine Guide....
...For younger readers, there’s The Tantrum that Saved the World, an illustrated children’s book by climate scientist Michael E Mann. See Pilita’s full list here....
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