Hints and tips:
...Brace yourself for petty squabbles over tiaras and dresses....
...My all-time favourite in this genre is Bad Blood (2018), the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos (that one did win the award)....
...When her father, a US naval chief petty officer turned ad man, died of a heart attack when she was 10, she was brought up by her teacher mother and grandmother....
...The government only lightly enforced laws against Catholicism in place since Elizabeth I’s reign....
...Kanter said he had also urged DoJ staff to “pump up” Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” and “dance like nobody’s watching”. Despite this resolve, Kanter still has his work cut out....
...But it wasn’t until years later that she wrote the series of razor-sharp novels about the self-deceptions and petty snobbery of Anglo-Irish life that cemented her reputation....
...Other prime streets are Smith Square and Barton Street, says Robert Oatley of Knight Frank, along with the pocket of early Georgian streets behind Petty France including Old Queen Street, where a number...
...Amid driving snow at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis, Ms Klobuchar vowed to rebuild a sense of community “worn down by the petty and vicious nature of our politics” and govern “not from chaos, but from opportunity...
..., arrogant, vindictive and occasionally plain vulgar Elizabeth, duel in the Wanamaker’s trademark period-faithful candlelight....
...“It keeps Obamacare, Obamacare-lite, but then it redistributes it to Republican states and I think it’s just petty.”...
...That was the experience of Elizabeth Brico, a 30-year-old mother of two who has battled heroin addiction for nine years....
...Also musical was the clumsy couples-in-therapy romcom Band Aid, in which a bickering couple, in denial after a miscarriage, form a band to turn their petty squabbles into song, albeit in weedy indie-rock...
...and Other Ironies, by Teffi, translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France and Anne Marie Jackson, Pushkin, RRP£8.99, 224 pages....
...One abbot at Dryburgh even engaged in petty warfare with a local family, a feud that involved the seizure and destruction of property and “some bloodshed”, and which persisted even after intervention by...
...Most recently she starred in Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater and is tipped to play Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s forthcoming The Crown....
...The kind of embittered insults she levels at her family feel both petty and unprofessional when directed publicly at colleagues, investors and even entire industries....
...“I feel like a Muslim Elizabeth Bennet.” Then, down at the Muslim American Society, she invokes another British period drama to explain why she feels so comfortable there....
...Who knows what trick some petty official at Heathrow might one day attempt? Matthew Engel is an FT columnist ——————————————- Would you pass?...
...“We don’t want to be petty and cause the eurozone to crumble because we want a couple of powers back in employment law or the social chapter – that is cutting off our nose to spite our face,” he added....
...Tom Brake, the Lib Dem spokesperson on home affairs, told the Financial Times that he was concerned that youngsters who had stolen packs of chewing gum or drink were having the book thrown at them for petty...
...His career spanned scouting out tigers for Queen Elizabeth II’s shooting party in 1961 to the near demise of one of the world’s most enchanting animals amid widespread environmental degradation....
...From this point any narrative momentum – what will happen if Jackie’s petty crime is discovered and will his parole be jeopardised? – dribbles away....
...And at the centre of things are Keira Knightley and Elizabeth Moss....
...He also said the process of approval had been incoherent and beset by “petty battles” between Mr Cable and Eric Pickles, the communities secretary....
...He added: “That has certainly been the case in the south-west, which has fallen back into parochialism and petty rivalry.”...
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