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...However, Chaplin’s legacy as a casualty of the red scare is a strange one....
...The thought might seem strange for a film up for 10 awards, including Best Director for Scorsese and Best Actress for Lily Gladstone (considered favourite for the prize ahead of Stone)....
...Read the full story here The strange death of corporate Britain Corporate Britain is dying. But it is not a natural death, writes our chief economics commentator Martin Wolf....
...Much of the intellectual heavy-lifting for Oppenheimer was done by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman’s biography American Prometheus....
...“This house is a little strange,” says Stefano Massini, as we walk past an old well in the garden of his heavily renovated 14th-century farmhouse near Florence....
...A pity that it ends not with this but with light-hearted pastiche: a true-crime radio drama (brought to you by J Edgar Hoover and Lucky Strike)....
...jo.ellison@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Avid reader irked by sprightly choice of words / From J Gibbs, Beckenham, Kent, UK...
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...No action figures are yet being sold of J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb....
...Opinions are distributed along a J-curve, only in reverse: everything is either terrible or amazing, but mostly it’s terrible....
...The strange truth is that the Tokyo trial played a part in the successful creation of what is now Asia’s strongest and most prosperous democracy, and of a security alliance between Japan and the US that...
...Dancers contort themselves into strange shapes. Those denied access to healthcare endure terror. The issue looks out onto a year in which the body will be a site of contest....
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...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...It was a very strange set of competing beliefs and behaviours,” said Preston Burton, one of his defence attorneys....
...Among recent bank failures, Silvergate did the deed, Signature Bank got wasted on its parents’ Tia Maria and Silicon Valley Bank did both before popping outside to check the strange noise in the garden....
...The installation is an Escher-like haunted house, with ceramic bin bags, skeletal hands bursting from floorboards and references to 1990s teen pop culture in the form of Pogs, dream-catchers and collaged J-...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...In his 2023 book A History of Fake Things on The Internet, Walter J Scheirer points out that many manipulated photographs are supposed to look manipulated....
...Most disconcerting, in the foreground, is a strange, dark spindly form, tentacles stretching in and out of the shallows....
...What is strange is that the French, masters of both bread and cheese, have never quite got it together, even though they’ve had all the chances handed them on a plate....
...The first guest to arrive is Ignatius J Reilly, John Kennedy Toole’s elephantine protagonist....
...It’s strange: when you call someone “a bit preppy”, you’re probably suggesting they’re a bit staid and twee, fundamentally strait-laced....
...Nagelmackers knew that passengers disembarking from the Orient Express would need somewhere to stay in Istanbul, and in 1895 he opened the Pera Palace hotel, which has played host to Ernest Hemingway, Mata...
...On September 24 1950, a strange article appeared in the Miami Sunday News. “Brainwashing,” it began, “is the principal activity on the Chinese mainland nowadays....
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