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...And after a cathartic suite that included “Weeds” (“For anyone who was called a weed at school”), “Weeds II (Origin of the Species)” and a lot of dry ice, Cocker emerged like a butterfly from metamorphosis...
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...This year, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg confirmed that “for the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world”....
...Saumarez Smith is an artist who began her making life working as a bookbinder, creating some of the most memorable and dynamic of contemporary bindings shown in museums including the V&A....
...And ING-DiBa: Today’s PMI numbers provide further evidence of what initially looks like a textbook V-shaped recovery....
...“Although timing is uncertain, the scene is set for a V-shaped recovery in advertising, at least in its early stages,” he wrote in a note to clients....
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...Julian was also a leading eugenicist, dedicated to the idea that science could be used to weed out inferior genetic stock for the public good....
...“Can you imagine if somebody could weed through your swiping left and right and could just recommend high-quality . . . ” She pauses. “Men?” I suggest. “Men....
...Dominating the first gallery is a sprawl of rubble from which both real weeds and sculptural fragments sprout....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...In the 1970s, US psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V Friesen developed a taxonomy of human emotion called the Facial Action Coding System....
...It went from weed to coke to heroin. But before heroin, it was the pills — always the opioid pills.”...
...Yet, like weeds shorn of their leaves, graft will doubtless spring back as lush as ever once the Buhari strimmer is back in its box....
...“I have to hire a great workforce to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” said FBI director James Comey....
...But now the slapstick idea has been turned into something more practical for those who cannot kick the weed....
...environmental management schemes, seek wherever possible to reduce their chemical dependency (already, many are using “cultural” controls, such as spring cropping, to combat the herbicide-resistant black grass weed...
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...These absurdist and ironic twists were all very well, I said to the V&A exhibition’s co-curators Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, but were they effective?...
...Iridescent kingfishers skim the green river and a dog-sized coypu cuts a long V as it swims across....
...What was once an intimate, long-established Italian neighbourhood of viable homes, apartments and some businesses is now a large expanse of undeveloped weed-filled lots....
...The high prices set for this year’s auction were supposed to weed out weaker operators. Only the top four in the industry make money....
...“Good progress is being made but the problem is these operations are like weeds: you find one, clip it and another springs up.”...
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