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...Besides resembling the stretched hide of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, its eldritch title is also eye-catching....
...Here the police and prison authorities are Elmer Fudd to Paleokostas’s Bugs Bunny, wrongfooted and humiliated at every turn....
...What brazen gall,” said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after South Africa launched its case. “South Africa’s hypocrisy screams to the high heavens.”...
...her acclaimed 2022 album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, Parks excitedly crawled and strutted about the stage, breaking into virtuosic flashes on her violin before cartoonishly levelling it at the crowd like Elmer...
...Among people with the gall to predict economic regime changes, it is close to being the consensus. It shares a lot with Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan’s demographic argument about interest rates....
...newsletter: SBF on trial Birkenstock prices its IPO UBS’s ‘tuna bonds’ clean-up Wall Street grabs its popcorn for the FTX trial The Big Short author Michael Lewis has spent his career chronicling the gall...
...Elmer van Buuren has spent 20 years waiting for night trains to come back into fashion....
...But to add more gall to your ire and frustration, Ofwat has now confirmed that they do indeed have a legal obligation to build, operate, maintain sewage systems capable of effectually dealing with that sewage...
...Helion said it would start supplying the power from the world’s first fusion plant in 2028, an announcement that marks either a big breakthrough for the technology or new heights of PR gall from a sector...
...Nothing galls like an electronic butler sneering at my prompt reply. 6. The “should have been a process” email....
...Pro-oil voices are suddenly much bolder again, swatting aside environmentalists for having the gall to worry about the climate during a global energy crisis....
...But for the Dutch entrepreneur, Elmer van Buuren, who (together with his business partner Chris Engelsman) has crowdfunded a new sleeper, the difficulty has been part of the pleasure: “When someone says...
...Her critics, though, say what galls them is that someone who claims to be so opposed to “cancel culture” seems happy to partake in it herself when it suits her....
...They were written on handmade paper and composed of tightly packed strings of strange, unpunctuated characters, like the writing of an ancient civilisation, drawn with a quill dipped in iron-gall ink....
...Some will moan that Tangen, once a highly paid hedge fund manager, has gall complaining about pay. Yet his argument is not about altruism....
...a new outdoor furniture collection, available in five colours. scp.co.uk Velvet Maxou armchair by Hubert Le Gall, £13,860 Handmade in France, part of a limited edition of 30 signed and numbered pieces...
...Yazbek is juggling several projects, including Dead Outlaw, a show that has obsessed him for 30 years, based on the true story of inept criminal Elmer McCurdy....
...What I do recall is a monstrous sense of outrage that he had had the gall to call at all. Didn’t he know I was busy? And at home? This was of course a disproportionate response....
...But Confident Music for Confident People had the gall to attempt both....
...Smart reads Read it and weep The Big Short author Michael Lewis has spent his career chronicling the gall and greed of Wall Street....
...The Abbey Library of St Gall, Switzerland The first record of a library being used at the St Gallen Abbey was in 820CE, making this one of the oldest library collections in Europe....
...The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001-2014 Carlotta Gall In this eyewitness account of America’s war in Afghanistan, journalist Carlotta Gall focuses on the subversive role of neighbouring Pakistan...
...The consumer goods company has escaped some of the inflation related to freight because the vast majority of its writing products, which include brands like Sharpie, Elmer’s and Krazy Glue, are manufactured...
...Perhaps it is the confidence that his autocracy has a stranglehold on what is and what is not history that allows Putin to attach the label of “Nazi” to anyone with the gall to resist his invasion....
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