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...His New York Times obituary descibes the rooms as ressembling “Hogarth paintings, Dickens stage sets and a three-dimensional Beatrix Potter drawing....
...takes on difficult political themes in her books: Flight Behaviour (2012), tackled climate change and 2018’s Unsheltered plucked at the strains in American society against the backdrop of the election of Donald...
...(In 2020, president Donald Trump pardoned Milken.)...
...Marfa, Texas Long before the glitterati turned Marfa into a buzzy tourist destination, when most visitors to this west Texas town were art and design obsessives making pilgrimages to experience everything Donald...
...Which brings us to the Trumps: Tiffany, Donald Jr and Eric, and dear Ivanka, the most intriguing and high-profile of them all....
...Yet even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps. At times the reader will feel sorry for the young Donald....
...entrance hall turn out to be by Louise Bourgeois, and the exquisite pencil drawing of an elephant peeking out from the back of a bookshelf, below a cherry-red leather-bound set of the complete works of Dickens...
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...Gillian Tett Donald Trump’s 2016 victory exposed the dark arts of digital campaigning — but can parties use such technology without getting their hands dirty?...
...A feared militia commander in Sudan has hired a Canadian lobbying group he hopes will secure a public meeting with US president Donald Trump, support from Libya’s military leader and free wheat from Russia...
...There is a long tradition of fiction exploring hot-button issues, reaching back to Dickens and Eric Ambler’s thrillers set in 1930s Europe on the cusp of war. But such open proselytising soon wearies....
...An EU diplomat summed up the mood after another rollercoaster EU summit with some seasonal Dickens references: “It’s a Great Expectations lead-in and a Bleak House outcome....
...Not only have journalists been labelled “the enemy” by President Donald Trump, but their credibility among voters has also been crumbling....
...This ghost has lingered since Donald Trump, the US president, campaigned on tariffs in 2016. Yet it’s easy enough to slay — just scale....
...At more than 500 pages long, it’s been likened to a Charles Dickens novel (though if you ask me Dickens would be a far more pleasurable read)....
...I am reminded of Dickens’ description of the little crossing sweeper in Bleak House: “Jo lives — that is to say, Jo has not yet died."...
...There is a great detail in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times that gives a sense of the central role played by coal in Victorian Britain....
...(WaPo) Vacuuming up talent Andrew Hill uses Charles Dickens and James Dyson to explain why innovative juices are channelled away from manufacturing....
...This is hard to swallow when we form our impressions of that era largely from the works of Charles Dickens, but positive narratives can take hold....
...Many have commented on Donald Trump’s patterns of speech disfluency — his use of breaks, pauses, false starts and fillers (words such as um, er, like)....
...– Bernanke explains to Vox what Donald Trump gets wrong on the economy. Also about blogging. – Chinese macro policy, buried under the headlines....
...One undeterred investor was Jorge Dickens, managing partner at Acon Investments, which bought out Grupo GMI, a company specialising in modular building kits used for rural housing, schools and airport hangars...
...(In the case of Labour’s Mr Khan, this is a relative achievement — like being the shortest Dickens novel, or the healthiest Nigella dessert.)...
...By 1841, subscribers across the world were addicted to Dickens’ tale of delicate orphan Nell....
...Scott McDonough was working on a deal to invest in Mexico’s biggest pet shop chain when Donald Trump’s election victory threatened to smash the North American free trade pact that has revolutionised the...
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