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...A gentle 78-year old with a shock of frizzy hair reminiscent of Kramer from the sitcom Seinfeld, he backed former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over allegations of antisemitism....
...Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer (2018) Brisk, engaging biography of Benjamin Netanyahu by one of Israel’s leading journalists and commentators....
...They lapsed into gentle conversation, reminiscing and catching up....
...Their rapacious, down-to-earth attitudes contrast with the almost noble characterisation of Byrne, who was said to be a gentle soul, an easy target for exploitation....
...They are also gentle and affectionate, but they lack courage and endurance, enterprise and high spirits....
...Rather than try to force his own imprimatur on the space, Saraiva’s gentle renovation has tried to recreate its former aesthetic....
...That gentle cycle was abruptly cut short this year. No sooner had the winter chill lifted than the relentless heatwaves began....
...He’s talking about himself — but he could be talking about his son, as this gentle, singular evening illustrates. ★★★★☆ The run has finished in Northampton but the show is now touring, royalandderngate.co.uk...
...She is nicely matched by Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, gentle and concerned as her fellow student Emmett and the one who first sees her potential....
...Her models include Virginia Woolf walking around London’s wintry streets, Walter Benjamin in Paris, Raja Shehadeh’s exploration of the Palestinian territories, and, more recently, Iain Sinclair’s London...
...Broad and flattering with rather soft fruit but a very gentle, caressing impact on the palate....
...Behind the combative public face lay a gentle and kind individual with a gift for friendship....
...But the great visual moment in the film is the Dustin Hoffman character, Benjamin Braddock, rushing over San Francisco’s Bay Bridge on the way to frustrate the young Ms Robinson’s wedding....
...Benjamin Franklin described it as “not merely an idle amusement”, but “useful in the course of human life”....
...“Think of it [as] a gentle reminder. ‘We know where you live.’”...
...Hannah Murphy in San Francisco and Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi report Facebook’s immediate focus will be on a partnership between JioMart, Jio’s newly launched ecommerce platform, and WhatsApp, the Facebook...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. It’s the story of four siblings who learn their fate from a fortune teller....
...The gentle “Freda’s Disposition” features wistful vocals from Gretchen Parlato, the album’s only guest....
...Suddenly the gentle fields of flowers found in medieval tapestries, the millefleurs with their prancing unicorns, gave way to evocations of the vast primeval forests and jungles of Asia and the Americas....
...“I have this romantic idea of nature being something completely unspoilt,” he tells me with a gentle smile....
...The CD opens with the Art-Blakey-recorded “Dat Dere” floating over double-time rhythms and two Harris originals, the gentle bass clarinet enhanced “Chasin’ Kendall” and “Let’s Take a Trip to the Sky”, featuring...
...Just a gentle padding of repetitive chords — one, two, three, four — calm and regular. The repetition is slow and soothing, with no build and no change in modulation. This is good....
...Stéphane Degout and Gyula Orendt are well matched as the King and Gaveston/Stranger, the latter swathed in a mystic accompaniment of gentle percussion....
...Though it pursues tough subject matter — “I’ve got a lot to be mad about,” as one lyric puts it — the sounds on the record are delicate, even gentle....
...It’s far from being one of his great songs, but its power lies in a gentle send-up that combines a sampling of Santa Claus is Coming to Town and all sorts of good-cheer Yuletide messages with his line: “...
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