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...Eventually, the promised tortoise lumbers into shot and makes surprisingly short work of a juicy strawberry. In a programme note Duke wonders if the ending might prove “deeply anticlimactic”....
...There’s a chicken dish named after his father on the menu and, on the way back from the gents, you can see a picture of him being a cheeky chappy with Delia Smith....
...“For years, I took the Delia idea to people and it was too niche,” says Catz. “So we did a short, and the BBC commission happened on the back of that.”...
...Some believe that, without heftier external funding, the club is being sold short....
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...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. It’s an extraordinary tale of survival, complete with a heartwrenching love story....
...Delia Grigore, a Romanian Romani writer, philologist and activist, says it was mainly the Kalderash or “coppersmith” Roma who started to build these palaces....
...The only straight 10 was for Tyrone Singleton and the fiery Delia Mathews in their bittersweet apache to “That’s Life”....
...“We love the sense of space and light,” says Delia Thomas....
...Indeed, short of the regulator forcing the company to divest Openreach, its wires business, almost everything else is going wrong....
...Openreach also received a fine from Ofcom after an investigation into historical Deemed Consent practices revealed it fell short of the high standards we expect....
...After the car crashes, Delia slips into a baroque, Dantean other-dimension of monsters and rapists, talking winds, and a multi-limbed child-nemesis....
...of the mid-March call, which was published by WikiLeaks, raised the question of whether Athens can continue to deal with two officials on the call, Poul Thomsen, head of the IMF’s European bureau, and Delia...
...In fact, we call all loaf-tin cakes English cake, or “English” for short....
...Arte Povera’s Antonioni-cool ragazzi had been brought up in 1970s Glasgow rather than in 1950s Turin, they would have made art like Lambie’s, drawing not on Sartre and Rossellini but on the NME, psychedelia...
...Mrs Beeton borrowed heavily from her and cooks such as Elizabeth David and Delia Smith cite Acton as an influence....
...In a comment that might have applied to May, the sports journalist Ian Wooldridge once commented: “Boycott, in short, walks alone.”...
...Norwich City could be the Chefs after Delia Smith, its joint majority shareholder....
...Made with ricotta salata, a pressed sheep’s milk cheese, aubergine and tomato sauce, it’s served with short pasta tubes so fat you can stick your finger inside them....
...When we asked what was for lunch she would reply “ifit”, short for “if it comes”....
...In 2008, he married Delia Tseng, a dancer more than 20 years his junior. Mr Gou’s newly exotic tastes have brought changes to a previously low-key business too....
...Delia moves along her arm, but Val gently guides her hand back towards the wrist. “There?” Delia asks. Val nods, and murmurs appreciatively....
...Herds of game – zebra, wildebeest, steenbok, springbok, gemsbok, red hartebeest – arrive for the lush short grass....
...Her hair fell in a matted mop with a short fringe – Prince Valiant-style – across her face. Her T-shirt bore the inscrutable emblem of the latest cause to save our planet....
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