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...The likes of George McCrae, Patti LaBelle and Candi Staton appear as insightful contributors....
...A product of the giovane scuola of young composers that succeeded Verdi, it has hovered on the fringe of the repertoire while tending to be associated with ageing prima donnas....
...It’s a refreshing and modern ethos built for Millennials and Gen Z’s that weren’t around to witness prima donna rainmakers....
...Bumbry enjoyed a 20th-century prima donna lifestyle. She owned a Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce and an orange Lamborghini, and once had her Covent Garden dressing-room redecorated....
...Victory in the Iowa caucus on the Republican side has not translated into winning the White House since the days of George W Bush’s campaign....
...When Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Goldfinch came out in 2013, Dempsey & Carroll was delighted to discover its stationery in the pages, in the hands of the kindly, antique-collecting, Park Avenue-residing...
...Last year, the company produced Ticket to Paradise, a knowing riff on vintage romcoms, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. “Outside, people were cynical,” Bevan says....
...Among them were biographies of George Washington, by Woodrow Wilson and others, reminiscences of Old New York by Charles H Haswell, and of India by a Lt Col Pollock....
...In Epsom, the Zig Zag café founded by Makhoul Georges, a refugee from Syria, has become an informal base for members of the refugee network....
...The museum displays letters from Stewart and Capra, photographs, pages from the film script, a cigar lighter like the one George wishes on in the film, and letters that Donna Reed (who played George’s wife...
...“Trying to navigate the system we have at the moment is like pushing water uphill, and it is not improving,” Donna Fordyce, Seafood Scotland chief executive, said on Thursday....
...“This cannot be allowed to happen further,” Dame Donna added....
...We intensified our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion after the tragic killing of George Floyd last year....
...“Focusing on just one work meant we could put a lot of effort into it, which was a good trigger for this sale,” says gallery founder Emmanuel Di Donna....
...“I had been thinking about this 1968 film Wonderwall, with George Harrison, which starts out with this professor who has a very traditional, very boring life....
...In Manhattan, perfectly blown-out hair, polished nails and a sleek Armani or Donna Karan suit were standard professional armour....
...George, played by James Stewart, tells Mary (Donna Reed) that he’s “gonna build skyscrapers a hundred storeys high”. Of course, he doesn’t....
...In Glasgow, Donna Anderson, a worker in bakery chain, blamed infections on the authorities letting “so many people into the country”. But she questioned the reaction to the virus....
...Conversations went: “I bought the Porsche, of course, but probably the biggest sign of my life-change was when I got Donna to wax my back.” That wasn’t the banter on St Barths....
...(FT) Indigenous Australians step up protests against deaths in custody The death of George Floyd in the US has struck a chord with indigenous Australians, who make up just 2 per cent of the population but...
...“You name it,” he said, as though he had just itemised the contents of a prima donna’s rider. On Monday, Mr Romney urged the government to pay $1,000 to each and every American adult....
...Because I do not believe they could treat their own people as, say, George Osborne did during austerity, if they had the faintest idea of their historical inheritance....
...The role calls on its prima donna to act like a prima donna, which can be awkward....
...Criminal psychologist Dr Donna Youngs is surely correct to point out the lack of a sexual motive in an emotionless crime lasting seconds....
...Laura Empson, the author of Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas, says: “If it is intellectually engaging or it’s fulfilling a sense of purpose and helping them feel worthwhile, then...
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