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...Meanwhile, Anya Taylor-Joy wore a strapless Dior Haute Couture gown decorated with silver appliqués that referenced the house’s Junon and Venus dresses from the AW1949 collection....
...His advice is a key that will unlock the serious joys of this bewitching, sophisticated book. Wellness by Nathan Hill Picador £20, 608 pages/Knopf Doubleday $30, 624 pages...
...Memory can prompt joy, when recalling the happiness of the past, or pain — sometimes impossible to dismiss — when trauma overwhelms us....
...Queen Elizabeth I reportedly had 18 so-called “bodyguards of the bed” in her chamber each night....
...I love food but the joy of cooking is yet to find me. The thing I couldn’t do without is my weekly Moves dance class. I retired from dancing at 23, which was a long time ago....
...And winter is a joy when the shapes of the trees are clear and the whole of the lake can be seen.”...
...“We announce with joy the release of Luis Manuel Díaz,” a government peace delegation said. “He was able to return safely to his family and his community.”...
...There is no plan, because I was planned up the wazoo my whole life for 30 years and it didn’t bring me joy.”...
...David Hockney’s current show (to January 21) is pure joy. 2....
...This is Il barbiere di Siviglia on period instruments, and the effervescent playing of the English Concert, conducted by Douglas Boyd, is a joy....
...As a little girl growing up in Iowa in the 1920s, she was Frances Elizabeth Kent....
...Iacobescu pushed buttons to flash colourful lights that marked each of the crucial railway lines he’d campaigned for — including the Elizabeth Line....
...he exclaimed, showing the joy of wine does not come from showing off one’s knowledge, or bank balance, but from sharing one of humanity’s greatest inventions with friends....
...It’s 1968, and Joy (Elizabeth Banks) is the kind of suburban Chicago housewife who lives her life safely behind the police line, her hair perfectly coiffed in a pile of shellacked curls, while on the streets...
...Intrigued, I ordered a cookbook where I was certain pomegranates would make an appearance: Elizabeth David’s 1950 A Book of Mediterranean Food, the book responsible for radically brightening an austere,...
...“It was a disaster, and a big joy,” says Lasry. “We had to make a decision.” Biermann says: “I remember I was on holiday with my family. And I had to sit at a desk and work on the new letters....
...an editor at Condé Nast, Tober and her late husband Donald (the former CEO of Sugar Foods and the force behind Sweet’n Low) started to focus their efforts and resources on the things that brought them joy...
...But, whether others notice the cufflinks he wears or not, they bring Fulk joy....
...horrors of slavery and institutional cruelty in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019), here was a book that barrelled along with a scarcely suppressed sense of joy...
...“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told,” says Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. It’s a surprisingly modern attitude — that the most effective yarns favour clarity and brevity....
...I’m friendly with the violinist Nicola Benedetti – to see her playing her violin like that is just a joy. Or Sinatra – I thought he was fantastic, and got to know him....
...But rather than preparing the gibbet, Elizabeth sees an opportunity to use Agnes’s powers for her own ends....
...When 17 regulars at the Boot Inn won the state lottery in 1767, they paid half a guinea to have the bells in Cambridge rung for joy....
...Into those notes are somehow collapsed history and geography, space and time, grief and joy, sorrow and wonder, nostalgia and memory....
...Elizabeth Strout’s novels include ‘Olive Kitteridge’ and ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
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