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...Art Basel has also finally filled the director of Americas role, left vacant by Horowitz in 2021, with former gallerist Bridget Finn, who starts in earnest for next year’s edition....
...UK defence secretary Ben Wallace told CNN last month that Ukraine had “successfully” used the Storm Shadow missiles against Russian targets....
...The race to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative party and UK prime minister has started in earnest....
...So that’s not just what Ben Wallace has already announced. He’s stepping down....
...When you think of those 25,000 dead, any other system would have just given up,” says Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary. “But they’re just grinding....
...Though she delivers a typically self-effacing performance (“I feel like Rolf Harris,” she gasps in a fit of self-loathing), the material is stagey and very earnest....
...Fortunately song-and-dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis happen to be on hand to swap snow business for show business and stage an impromptu Broadway extravaganza in the backyard barn....
...For Hong Kong-based artisan jeweller, Wallace Chan, showing in Europe and New York is an opportunity to liaise with existing clients....
...By 2005, when the UB Group swallowed its last large rival, Shaw Wallace, he had control of half of India’s whisky and rum market....
...Ngugi’s embrace of Kikuyu began in earnest with his 1977 play Ngaahika Ndeenda or, I Will Marry When I Want....
...From Bottom’s earnest travails in Pyramus and Thisbe to the cumulative mayhem of The Play That Goes Wrong, currently running in London’s West End, there is an enjoyable sideline in British drama of deliberately...
...Hung among other Old Masters, the picture might look rather earnest. But hang such a work on a whitewashed breeze-block wall, and suddenly you’ve got a quirky statement of cultural depth....
...Cartoonists parody him as a Mr Bean character or draw attention to his resemblance to Wallace, the bumbling plasticine inventor from Wallace and Gromit....
...“There is fantastic global interest from different continents in the assets for sale,” says Kieran Wallace, the KPMG liquidator appointed by the Irish government....
...Then came a fellowship at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she started work on The Luminaries in earnest....
...An intelligent alien viewing the film would conclude that psychoanalysis was not “the talking cure” but consisted in the regular and earnest administration of corporal punishment....
...Last year Gagosian’s London Picasso show upstaged Tate Liverpool’s; in 2009, Damien Hirst paid to display his paintings at the venerable national Wallace Collection; now his dealer Jopling opens with a highly...
...demands an earnest church warden as a colleague and I flee from a painfully sincere rendition of hymns delivered by a white-robed choir in the city’s Chinese church....
...He may have raced in earnest, but the prelude included his customary levity....
...Take the case of denim brand Earnest Sewn. It launched in Selfridges two-and-a-half years ago and now plans to open a stand-alone London store.”...
...The earnest profiles of Copley’s colonial dignitaries - his John Adams, says Updike, “looks as though he might have the beginnings of a cold” - recall Dickens’s despair at the “dull and gloomy character”...
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