Hints and tips:
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice was on Thursday given a Takeover Panel deadline of August 9 to make a counter-offer to the £9.5bn agreed bid from a Fortress-led consortium, or walk away....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice bids for UK supermarket group Shares in Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket Wm Morrison surged 30 per cent following an approach from US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier &...
...Unemployed Scottish journalist Alex Dolan takes a job writing a book for plutocrat Stan Clayton about Clayton’s pet project, a supercollider which, it is hoped, will enable scientists to plumb the secret...
...I begin training in earnest four months in advance, in conditions that emulate the varied, hostile terrain of South Africa, but rarely come close to being comparable....
...Allan Clayton is by turns earnest, tender and emotionally undecided, Tim Mead upright, elegant yet dramatically vague....
...It’s shamelessly derivative and self-referential, recycling musical effects from The Importance of Being Earnest....
...It must be the ultimate stand-in performance: an earnest 24-year-old replacing a giant of pop in front of 74,000 people at London’s Wembley Stadium and a global television audience of hundreds of millions...
...Instead, the tone is earnest....
...By the mid-1990s, though, his name was mud with critics, and as popular tastes changed, his earnest balladry came to be seen as corny as one of his flat caps....
...Earnest and zany, Monáe is a talent to cherish. Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady (Atlantic/Bad Boy Entertainment)...
...The playing is taut, the vocals as earnest as ever, yet this is contrary stuff....
...The weakest moment was when he was most in earnest, on “Song of You”, for his boyfriend and fiancé, Jorn....
...“Just the Way You Are”, inevitably the arm-waving set closer, was sugary, apparently in earnest and wholly affirmative. I guess that’s why the girls love him. venues.meanfiddler.com/apollo...
...I ask him about “First Light” (“First I was an ancient, then I was an infant, now I’m alive”), expecting an answer about being an earnest adolescent but chilling out in his twenties....
...Perfect Symmetry, their third album, is out on October 13 and early reports suggest it casts off their earnest, piano-pounding and, frankly, wearying formula for something sparky, 1980s-influenced and fun...
...An earnest section with strings showed why Blunstone was called “a British Art Garfunkel”, for good and bad....
...If, however, the sentiments of “Roscoe” – about wishing to be born in 1891 and building one’s house from cedar – are absurdly rose-tinted, Midlake look so earnest that it seems the only environmentally responsible...
...Clayton Cannahan’s Black Diamond Lodge, is at Niseko Higashiyama, tel: +81 136-441 144; www.bdlodge.com. More information, www.seejapan.co.uk...
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