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...Suddenly the orchestral musicians and conductor Donald Runnicles are seen playing cards in the green room, the pit empty....
...Chief conductor Donald Runnicles begged off sick on Saturday’s opening night, leaving John Fiore battling to keep things together, with little room left for subtlety. The cast, at least, is excellent....
...But much of the group’s money — $15mn — came in December from billionaire investors Paul Singer and Ken Griffin, who each gave $5mn, and insurance broker Pat Ryan and his wife Shirley, who chipped in another...
...“I stand on the shoulders of people like Shirley Chisholm and so many others as we work to advance the ball for everyday Americans,” he said. “Because that is what Democrats do.”...
...That makes Andrew Shirley nervous. He puts together the Knight Frank Wealth Index which tracks the movements of collectible assets such as fine art, classic cars and rare whisky....
...True to form, Zeldin, a lawyer and Iraq veteran from suburban Shirley, Long Island, trailed Hochul by wide margins throughout the summer and was generally being regarded as an afterthought....
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...Donald Runnicles and his orchestra fare better than they did in Götterdämmerung, perhaps warmed up by all this extra Wagner, and awoken by the international audience....
...For Sunday’s premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor Donald Runnicles and director Stefan Herheim have the horn players in illuminated boxes above the sides of the stage....
...I will say I’m not thrilled or really pleased,” she said in an office decorated with images of trailblazing black women including Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and Marxist...
...“I’m unbought and unbossed,” she said, borrowing a line from Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress and a personal hero....
...At the centre of these peculiar happenings was the Hitchens’ daughter, Shirley, who was 15 and claimed that the ghost wreaking havoc in their house was called Donald....
...By wearing white she drew a parallel between her election and the fight for women’s rights, and evoked political pioneers before her, such as Shirley Chisholm, who wore white as she became the first African-American...
...“Even though the money is not flowing in, [the NRA] have been very, very effective at getting the message out, and it resonates today,” said Shirley Anne Warshaw, a political-science professor at Gettysburg...
...“You’re seeing in public the Donald Trump that I saw in private and that people who left the White House staff saw in the Oval Office every day,” says David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump...
...When you can follow his thread, what Biden says can be as corny as a Shirley Temple song. “I fell ass over tin cup in love,” was how Biden described meeting his first wife....
...Steve Bannon, the former adviser to Donald Trump, calls the US-China trade war a fight to prevent Beijing from becoming a “global hegemonic power”....
...Carsen moves his figures with clarity and elegance, conductor Donald Runnicles’ mellow romanticism is leavened with malicious foreboding....
...With men and their behaviour the subject of consistent controversy, from #MeToo, revenge porn and incel communities to the ascendance of strongman leaders such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip...
...The staging is not helped by Donald Runnicles, whose conducting is consciously passionless, consistently heavy-handed, and lacking in precision....
...Mr Hill and his wife, Shirley, became close with the Ashtons, who would fly to Europe on Mr Hill’s NetJet. The couples went on holiday together....
...triumph with the defection of David Owen and Shirley Williams to the new Social Democratic party....
...Donald Trump claimed this week that he wants the US to support environmentally friendly innovation (yes, really) and some American states are experimenting, irrespective of anything Washington does....
...On the various stairs and walls, dancers and choristers cavorted, ornately costumed and evoking a Met-style Hollywood biblical epic. Donald Holder’s lighting looked lurid, with lots of pink....
...How comfortably can we watch the civil rights-era Green Book knowing the brother of its subject, pianist Don Shirley, called it a “symphony of lies”? And then there is Vice ....
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