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...When Pel was selecting items for display, McPherson said to him: “Oh, can you not take that, because I still wear that?”...
...He hasn’t raised taxes, has handed out large public work contracts and has defunded and tried to eliminate regulators....
...I could see Edna was the work of genius but couldn’t quite laugh. Maybe it was that the morphing of the familiar man with his floppy dark hair into the croaking, gladioli-throwing Edna was too much....
...And while it doesn’t always feel savage enough, it ends, potently, with a speech of cold fury. ★★★☆☆ To January 13, sohotheatre.com...
...The T-shirt will be on its way soon. Commiserations to the rest of you, but there will be a new quiz on Friday....
...What if it can’t be fixed?...
...And the rest of you who didn’t get this one should probably take a long, hard look in the mirror. So, using our magic online spinning wheel to whittle it down, the victor is . . ....
...In an otherwise kindly phrased email afterwards, the creator of Dame Edna Everage revealed that “amazingly”, at the age of 77, his hair wasn’t dyed....
...I recalled a sentence from an Edna St Vincent Millay poem: “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Even for the most mathematically uninclined minds, geometry is the fount of visual pleasure....
...All those imperilled bookstores that don’t yet have documentaries made about them can only look on in envy....
...There’s no time to stop and consider — just as the people involved didn’t have time to stop and think.”...
...“I don’t claim to have invented these products,” Abramović says, “but I do claim to live by them....
...“I wouldn’t sell a dog for A$100,000 to the wrong person,” he says. “People haven’t got a clue. They’re soft on the dogs and they can get out of control. There are way too many in the pound.”...
...In the future, how will we prove we have laboured when we won’t have done? AI can only triumph if it incorporates the secret of Dame Edna’s success. stuart.kirk@ft.com...
...Irish literary icon Edna O’Brien’s new play is called Joyce’s Women. But neither Molly Bloom nor Anna Livia Plurabelle make an appearance....
...“We think it’s important for them to come up with ways to replace that capital — you can’t say ‘you can’t have that capital but we’re not going to do any programme to put funds into those companies’.”...
...But because so much of this history hasn't been documented, how do you find and preserve it, and also expand on it? Mashama explains her creative process....
...“It’s a Tuscan pasta you don’t need a machine for, just your hands. Like playing with Play-doh, you’re basically rolling snakes. Adults have a lot of fun.”...
...It doesn’t sound like what it is: an engine that makes all economic activity possible.”...
...“Usually in these circumstances, they’re already too over-indebted to lend to responsibly,” said McPherson....
...“It’s a place that most New Zealanders don’t visit, let alone foreigners,” said Scott Riches-McPherson when he picked me up at the station to take me to Omaka Lodge, a beautifully kept B&B 20 minutes out...
...People are very upset,” said Edna Liong, who liaises with tenants for Huttons Asia. “What some landlords are asking for is not reasonable.”...
...The study, reported in the journal Nature, is the most striking demonstration so far of environmental DNA, or eDNA....
...I wouldn’t encourage any embellishment, unless it’s very subtle. We aren’t trying to look like Edna Everage....
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