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...ELF’s Halo Glow Liquid Filter [a primer-foundation hybrid] had 311.3mn views and was a top seller too.” Certainly ELF is a favourite for one make-up wearer in my home....
...In a yet sillier example, an episode of the sitcom Community was removed from Hulu and Netflix because it features a character wearing black face paint to dress up as a dark elf....
...The latest furore centres on Wales where road rage is all over the front page, as Cardiff band Catatonia once sang....
...These creators understand that humans have a magic power: the ability to imagine possible worlds in which we might find liberation....
...The Pembrokeshire beach was where filmmakers set Shell Cottage, and the death and burial of Harry’s beloved house elf, Dobby....
...The rival businessperson, who calls Zhang China’s “vape king”, says: “He’s the kind of person who’s very down-to-earth; you can’t tell he’s such a big boss.” Big tobacco is trying to catch up....
...After years of posing as Joyce, the urge to put herself in front of the camera has gone. “I’ve been trying to work it out,” she says....
...Welcome back to Middle-earth, and by that I mean thousands of years back....
...For every orc there’s an elf to discover; for every Star Wars character there is another, usually inexplicably related to a third character....
...Neither Lost Mary or Elf Bar, which combined account for more than half of all vapes sold in the UK, had a stand there....
...It is in the tropes he created, his codification of the basic rules about what, exactly, an elf, an orc or a dwarf is like....
...Videos of parkour athletes jumping up on building fronts to switch off power feeding the shop windows went viral in autumn....
...For progressives, the early days of the DeSantis administration were also earth-shaking....
...There is Elf, the female folk singer; Dean, the rough boy with the bluesy chops; Griff the jazz-influenced drummer; and Jasper, the withdrawn guitar genius....
...What on earth was he? Who was this mincing prince of New York high society who became a gritty nonfiction novelist?...
...Tourists who make it to the town this summer will also find walking tours of the locations, a recreation of the elf houses and the Jaja Ding Dong bar at the Cape Hotel....
...Bringing us back down to Earth with something more than a bump is The Red Zone (Amulet Books, RRP£11.99)....
...Here he keeps the focus on a single group: Dean, a singer-bassist bent on escape from working-class Gravesend; pianist Elf, a Sandy Denny-like figure with a folk sensibility; Griff, a northern drummer from...
...A horizon so wide and empty you can trace the curvature of the Earth can make you lose your bearings. Only the sound of the muezzin from distant Wekiro tethers us to the place....
...Douglas Murray’s new book reports from the front lines of the “culture wars”, the battle to define the core values of western societies....
...This corner of Oxford will remain forever Middle-earth....
...Recommended reading Unlike most of my peers, I never read JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (we have only so much time on this earth)....
...“It was June, yet somehow I was dressed up as an elf.” The year was 1943 and she was six years old. It was, she tells me with disarming simplicity, “the end of bleakness”....
...The six continually updated screens in front of Sergeant Tomas Ceponis’ desk in Lithuania’s defence ministry do not transmit conventional military data....
...A Shakespearean courtier with the face of an elf flies past on what appears to be a broomstick....
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