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...While evidently trying to follow Duck Soup’s recipe — and borrowing from the likes of Dr Strangelove, Woody Allen’s Bananas and Armando Iannucci’s Veep — the six-part series dishes out a tepid stew of undercooked...
...Duck confit tortellini, with shaved winter truffle, hazelnuts, butternut squash purée — and a bath of duck consommé that takes three days to make — hid tiny squeezes of a sour black-cherry gel for an acidic...
...Clair Wills’ ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ is published by Allen Lane on January 25 Copyright © 2024, Clair Wills....
...Billionaire basketball fans have tried and failed to buy the Portland Trail Blazers, a crown jewel of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s estate, which he wanted to be mostly sold for charity....
...A trio of MLC games broadcast to a wider audience on CBS’s sports channel later in the tournament deployed terms such as “short extra cover” and “golden duck” with abandon....
...In an email to staff, co-chairs of the Brookings board of trustees Glenn Hutchins and Suzanne Nora Johnson said Allen took the “personal trip to Qatar in 2017, before he was appointed president at Brookings...
...There are some spiteful users, true, but the taunts of strangers, if not threatening, should be water off a duck’s back....
...“In my 20s and 30s, I was lucky to meet people who taught me that a musician is also an athlete,” says the cellist, a winner of 19 Grammys, the Glenn Gould Prize, the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential...
...Of the numerous pieces that exist in her name, her favourites include those by Allen Jones (“He portrayed me as a really strong woman....
...I started with “Crispy duck & watermelon, salted cashews”, in which a duck breast was skilfully spiced, with individual flavours of cinnamon and anise stepping forward from the chorus and singing solos....
...This 2006 musical by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater is a slight but heartwarming story of belief, sisterhood and second chances....
...Then again, the famous debate in Woody Allen’s Manhattan comes to mind. Can trenchant satire ever compete with bricks and bats in a fight for a just cause?...
...And do you think that passage of any one or all of those three, in the lame-duck session, is realistic?...
...up the revamped menu of American brasserie classics is ex-Ivy chef Gary Lee, who will serve favourites such as the full rack of oak-smoked baby back ribs with raw slaw alongside new dishes like crispy duck...
...The hurdy-gurdy is the duck-billed platypus of instruments. It has strings but you don’t pick or strum them. It is instead operated by a crank as if you were trying to start a Ford Model T....
...The ducks have become a symbol of the pro-democracy movement....
...“In our view, it may make such a calculation in coming weeks, with Covid-19 intensifying and fiscal stimulus caught in the Bermuda triangle of a partisan, lame-duck Congress,” Mr Englander said....
...Mr Trump removed Glenn Fine as acting inspector-general of the US defence department on Monday, the Pentagon confirmed in a statement....
...Once the US presidential race was called for Joe Biden, the world has watched to see what a lame duck Trump presidency would entail. Lots of golf? Executive orders? Pardons?...
...Allen will be based in Washington DC....
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...That’s the question that west London’s Notting Hill Arts Club — an understated basement that for more than two decades has been a cradle for early-career artists including Lily Allen, The Libertines and...
...A Warning , by Anonymous, Little Brown, RRP£20, 272 pages Crime In Progress: The Secret History of the Trump-Russia Investigation, by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 368 pages Ed Luce...
...Key implications: As Miin Wu, chairman and chief executive of Macronix, puts it, chip companies are like ducks on a river that know before others that spring is coming....
...What else we’re reading China’s green policy comes at a price Dazhang, a village in northern China known for processing duck feathers for use in clothes and pillows, has become a test ground for Beijing...
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