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...“Sometimes you just need an office,” says Donna (Kimberly Herbert Gregory), with whom Carol develops a tentative friendship built on banana bread and mutual quietude....
...Apart from the scientific achievement, there has been considerable human interest in the awards, with laureates including the oldest winner (96-year-old Arthur Ashkin), the third female winner in physics (Donna...
...Will Gregory, Alison Goldfrapp’s songwriting partner, was absent from the show: he doesn’t play live....
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...In such environs, you cannot help but feel the prima donna. And then there are the flashbulbs....
...Donna Anna usurps the florid half of “Non mi dir” for a mad scene....
...Behold, a prima donna is born. Not, you may note, a diva – at least, not yet....
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