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...The forest belongs in the German Romantic tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, rather than conjuring a world of Disneyesque enchantment....
...“A laughless debacle,” said Variety of Polanski’s latest, a black comedy about hotel guests at a New Year’s Eve party, starring John Cleese and Mickey Rourke....
...And then there’s David Lynch’s Twin Peaks universe, in which otherworldly evil expresses itself via a father’s lust for his daughter....
...Tosh Wanogho-Maud and Mitchell Zhangazha are terrific and charismatic as David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks....
...David McWilliams is an economist who hosts the Dalkey Book Festival (dalkeybookfestival.org), which kicks off next week on Bloomsday in Dublin....
...Farewell PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist who sought out political irony, absurdity and hypocrisy....
...This was the second year of double-digit, year-on-year growth,” says Reformasi’s O’Rourke, referring to Indonesia’s export earnings over the past several months....
...A nine-member consortium led by engineering companies Rolls-Royce, Laing O’Rourke and Atkins wants to build up to 16 small modular reactor (SMR) power stations by 2050....
...It is this level of connection that former craftsmen Davids Surtees and Basford recall when they speak about their days working in Cartier’s London workshops in its midcentury heyday....
...Mr Harrison believes he can pull off what he describes as a “David and Goliath” story. “We are on the verge of a tremendous upset,” he says....
...Laing O’Rourke has cut salaries for all UK staff by between 20 and 30 per cent while other workers have been furloughed....
...David Gardner writes that a war of attrition in north-west Syria is spiralling out of control....
...Beto O’Rourke (1972) remains nominally in the arena. Failing these long shots, it is increasingly likely that Generation X will never produce a president of the US....
...We need immigration laws that match our values and we need a president who understands the border,” said Mr O’Rourke. Additional reporting from Alan Hernández Pastén in Mexico City...
...O’Rourke has explicitly called it a “Brexit album” (the band’s contribution to the Remain cause was a strip-the-willow flash-mob at Holyrood) themed around “Isolation. Fear. Giddiness....
...This month’s debate will be smaller than in October: Beto O’Rourke has since dropped out of the race and Julian Castro missed the debate requirements....
...The engineering group and its partners, which include Laing O’Rourke and Arup, want to secure a sum “in the low hundreds of millions”, confirmed one person with knowledge of the request....
...In 2007, Gordon Brown, then prime minister, promised “British jobs for British workers”, and while David Cameron — leader of the then opposition Conservatives — initially criticised Brown for echoing the...
...Hours later, the former six-term senator attended a fundraiser at the home of David Cohen, the chief lobbyist for Comcast, in a move that highlighted his urgent need to raise money after entering the field...
...The FT has a stern and richly merited editorial on Trump’s choice of David Malpass as the next head of the World Bank....
...John Knox (David Tennant) provides fulminating flair, fetched into the film for adversarial tantrums and preachings of damnation....
...“At some point the Democrats who are serious [about winning] in Iowa are going to have to talk about trade, but it’s hard,” says David Salmonsen, head of congressional relations at the American Farm Bureau...
...In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA agent, raked in close to $3.6m, more than triple the haul of Republican incumbent David Brat....
...She is currently chair of GSO Loan Financing, a subsidiary of private equity firm Blackstone, and a non-executive director at construction company Laing O’Rourke....
...The race has sparked talk about Mr O’Rourke being on the Democratic presidential ticket in 2020....
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