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...McCartney pushed the larks too far, returning for a tedious guitar workout with his guests and bandmates in a closing rendition of Abbey Road’s “The End”....
...“I’m a lark and Mother is an owl,” says Alex. “So by the time I’m ready for my first glass of wine, she gets her second wind.”...
...US president George HW Bush, who had attended Emperor Showa’s funeral, led the world to the end of the cold war and declared the advent of a “new world order”....
...She met her husband and fellow photographer George Georgiou in the mid-1980s when they were students at the Polytechnic of Central London....
...Englishman George Adams is believed to have invented the lorgnette around 1770....
...*We remember the days fixed income traders/brokers used to slip zero-coupon perpetual bonds into their quotes as a lark to trip up cub reporters — on the basis there was NO SUCH THING....
...His grating larks flowed from an insecure character and a demand for attention. With his zany hair and needy grin, he strove to entertain but was himself the joke....
...Strewth, this managing the economy lark is way more complicated than you thought, isn’t it? When you put it that way, you can hardly blame Mr Osborne, can you?...
...“You can plan to come out here a year in advance and be almost guaranteed to have crowd-free, epic conditions,” says George Klechner, a local who’s skied here since 1977....
...This investment lark is not a doddle after all. Still, my pot is perking up....
...Viewed as even more degenerate was the debutante Mary Blomfield, who when presented at court refused to curtsy to George V, instead kneeling to implore him to stop torturing women....
...“Just a lark,” he adds....
...Everywhere there are animals: horses, cows, pigs and poultry in the villages; wolves, bears, lynx and wild boar in the forests; and eagles, owls, storks and larks in the skies....
...One can apply for this people’s peers lark....
...He is up well before the lark to start going through his boxes on the kitchen table at 5.45am....
...Littlejohn: “Also we don’t like this fewer-people-in-prison lark. Prison works. And even if it doesn’t work for them, it works for me....
...He summons a thousand nobles to what he hopes will be the first of many great feasts, on St George’s Day....
...That he enjoys Lark Rise to Candleford, whatever that is. It appears to be a costume drama made by the BBC....
...“Beginnings are always troublesome,” George Eliot said wisely, adding that “conclusions are the weak point of most authors.” Seriously bad endings grate like toothache....
...(And another theme park manqué: “Shane Meadows” – a fun-filled parkland with animatronic northerners wired for vocal patois and local-colour larks.)...
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor...
...Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Lark, a precociously wise 12-year-old, cares for her disabled half-brother Termite in small-town West Virginia....
...His famous poem “Scotland” is based on his experience of walking round St Andrews on a beautiful spring day, sun a-shining, larks a-singing, and exclaiming his pleasure to the woman from the fishmonger’s...
...Sometimes we want to warn, when the latest band of Lala-land lab rats comes up with another multimillion-dollar viewing lark: “Beware of geeks bearing gifts.”...
...Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Jonathan Cape £16.99, 272 pages Lark, a precociously wise 12-year-old, cares for her disabled half-brother, Termite, in the small West Virginian town of Winfield....
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