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...He finds inspiration in naturalists’ accounts, legends and fairy tales rather than in zoos or safaris....
...Take a break from the news Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, and the Disney fairy tale Wish — which marks the studio’s centenary — are among this week’s film releases....
...Nevertheless, Bramble: The Mountain King is the latest title to draw from folk horror’s well, inspired, its makers say, by the childhood fairy tales of their native Sweden....
...The stool reminds Renzullo of the Scandinavian Elsa Beskow fairy tales he read as a child....
...Among the offerings are wispy works by the in-demand Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, while Wolfgang Paalen and Gordon Onslow Ford — rarer at auction — also feature....
...And they’ve looked so closely at the Blair-Brown playbook from 1997 in which Gordon Brown spent a lot of time doing a similar process of reassurance....
...(Either way, his voice comes from a caffeinated Joseph Gordon-Levitt.)...
...The state had no business enforcing reverence to fairy tales....
...(FT) From fairy tale to culture war: Britain gripped by royal race row The Duchess of Sussex’s two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, broadcast on Sunday, has rocked the ruling family and split opinion...
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading An epidemic of fairy lights rages uncontrolled in the US Midwest Several Midwestern states are near the top of the US pandemic league tables for things such as Covid-19 test...
...An epidemic of fairy lights sought to bring some levity to the world. And the US market eked out a win — relive a dramatic year for investors here. Science promises a path out of the pandemic....
...Apple have helped drive the rise, but consumer groups such as Procter & Gamble also fared better than expected over the summer as demand surged for staples such as Bounty paper towels, Ariel detergent and Fairy...
...Then I worked for Gordon. What was the first dish you learnt to cook? I can’t think. Something like fairy cakes. Or a stew, some sort of soup. I definitely did my cookery badge in the Brownies....
...So much of cottagecore seems to look to fairy tales for aesthetic inspiration....
...But Mr Johnson is promising a fairy tale victory through little more than Churchillian grit, Philip Stephens writes. The FT View is that the slowing UK economy needs more than a dose of optimism....
...Staged in the New York Marble Cemetery at dusk, the delicate tulle-layered dresses and flower-fairy headwear looked even more radiant in the mizzle. And, miraculously, no one slipped over....
...Daunted by the task of remaking the film, he at first wanted David Gordon Green (maker of the new Halloween) to direct....
...When Corbyn was elected a year ago, it was a fairy tale for Britain’s marginalised hard left. He had whimsically entered the contest to replace Ed Miliband at odds of 100 to 1....
...…Dadds Army Gordon Dadds, which dubs itself an acquisitive law firm, is reversing into Work Group, the Aim-quoted shell....
...Here they would turn backwards and forwards in a series of steps not unlike the Gay Gordons....
...Fairy godmothers don’t generally worry about money, but Carter’s house wasn’t purchased by magic....
...We — and women readers especially — suspend disbelief because we want to believe that this can happen, that life can be a fairy tale....
...But conscience in its various forms has bubbled up to the surface in many of the festival’s world premieres, most unavoidably in Oliver Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the famous whistleblower...
...But most changes to the personal tax system in the past 25 years have been more away with fairies than a prelude to a fairytale ending....
...In fact, at no point after May 2010 did it sink back to where it had been at the nadir of Gordon Brown’s catastrophic premiership....
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