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...Even after they’d moved out, Barry’s voice lingered in our house as we’d listen to his record from 1962, “Wild Life in Suburbia”, on the gramophone....
...I wish I’d had that tip years ago🤦🏼♀️. (Current state of inbox: 363,000.) And finally . . ....
...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....
...They’d kill you. They took shit from no one,” Arthur says....
...AI can only triumph if it incorporates the secret of Dame Edna’s success. stuart.kirk@ft.com...
...Once you realise how material it is to a company’s operations, then you’d say it’s an enterprise risk — we probably need a board expert on it, and we need to fund it.”...
...Givenchy Black D-frame sunglasses (£229, harveynichols.com) will do the trick....
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...They’d go to Zabar’s, a Jewish deli, for bagels with scallion cream cheese. She’d open Irma Rombauer’s Joy of Cooking and make goulash. She introduced Bailey to different ethnic foods....
...I’d spent some time trying to fix up my bike at a local bike co-op, when one of the volunteers told me that the chain was worn, and I should come back soon to replace it....
...I’m not sure I could’ve written Half of a Yellow Sun if I’d experienced the Nigerian Biafran war. I think I have the distance, not just of time, but of not having directly experienced the war....
...Another screening likely to be memorable is that of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Titane, Julia Ducournau’s thrillingly transgressive body horror....
...Last week, the crypto mogul revealed that he’d bought a 7.6 per cent stake in online stock brokerage Robinhood for $648mn....
...Edna Lewis’s books give me succour and direction: she got people to respect soul food. And Mashama Bailey inspires me....
...Tuttle agrees: “ARKK has not had as many outflows as you’d expect, given the returns.”...
...Designed by Ed Tuttle, Amanjena was inspired by his trips to “southern Spain to see the Alhambra palace, and across Morocco to numerous mosques and the 12th-century Menara Gardens”....
...Ochoa Foster may not have visited Nietzsche’s rock before but I’d bet my Zoom account she’s read his books....
...“I’d read a bit of the Bible. I’d read things that would bestir me to go to places I’d normally shudder from....
...“You’d need to put frontiers and customs,” he said. “It’s like Brexit within Mexico . . . It will be very difficult to leave but you can threaten, and with threats, negotiate something.”...
...My life hasn’t turned out how I’d like”? What made me answer, “I am really sorry to hear that. Must be so, so tough . . . ” and miss my stop?...
...Scrimping a living from odd secretarial and life-modelling jobs, she found herself in Greenwich Village at the centre of a downtown art scene that included Eugene O’Neill, the writers Djuna Barnes and Edna...
...Sergio, a 75-year-old insurance salesman, said: “Any other year, I’d already have planned my holidays by now.”...
...I knew in my heart — this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then — that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn....
...family so super-ordinary — DIY dad, house-proud mum, two all-American teens and a toddler — that you’d have to suspect hidden super-powers....
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