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...around the City singing “shares are cheap today, cheaper than yesterday” to the tune of “La Donna è Mobile”....
...Sold-out booths were reported by David Kordansky gallery (works by Ivan Morley, $40,000-$85,000) and Simon Lee (Donna Huanca, $50,000-$75,000). Frieze runs until Sunday....
...The author admits to humming Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” to herself before client workshops. What else does science reveal that will help us have a good day?...
...After the interval, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill initially left satire behind with the solemn song “Vom Tod im Wald”, nobly delivered by bass Barnaby Rae....
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$28, 576 pages Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...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....
...We get it too from Donna Murphy’s spinsterly work colleague, who in Abe’s head, where most of his life happens, becomes a sex-cat fairy godmother....
...Rae (Ricci) is a small-town, good-time girl who finds redemption in her improbably chaste, but erotically charged relationship with Lazarus (Jackson), a former blues star fallen on hard times, whose woman...
...Leigh Webb at Panmure Gordon was among the analysts concerned by the news. “The risk of BSkyB’s long-term strategy not working has gone up a notch in our view....
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