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...Pennsylvania just before lockdown, separately feature an early mentor and a late comrade-in-arms: saxophonist Larry McKenna, who guided the pianist’s early years, delivers the sultry “Good Life”; trumpeter Wallace...
...But he added: “One saving grace has been Ukraine....
...“[Trump] is so clearly going to win the Republican nomination . . . that he’s letting Murdoch know he’s not soliciting their good graces,” the executive added. “He’s demanding it in a dominant way.”...
...Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, said in a note: “Well, at Friday’s close of 9p [a share], Joules was capitalised at just £10mn, so its fall from grace has been alarming, but no doubt Next will...
...As the saying goes — popularised by the writer David Foster Wallace — fish don’t see the water they swim in 🐟....
...The anxiety about these candidates at the top of the government is partly why there are these intermittent flutters of excitement about politicians further down the ministerial ladder, whether it’s Ben Wallace...
...Grace, herself a recent convert, talks to other new disciples (“The Fast and the Curious”)....
...He added: “It was not done with a lot of grace.”...
...Everyone from David Foster Wallace to John Bercow has hymned the beauty of Federer’s game, and rightly so....
...This rhythmic masterpiece, loaned for the first time ever by London’s Wallace Collection, is the exhibition’s climax, hanging splendid and alone in the final gallery....
...She has led with dignity and grace through a time of great change and under exceptionally difficult circumstances, both at home and abroad....
...Iran has accused the UK of carrying out US instructions by seizing the Grace I....
...Broecker’s first wife, Grace, died in 2007 after the couple had been married 55 years....
...The unique look of 11-11: Memories Retold, created by Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame, is inspired by Monet and Turner....
...Born in 1961, Means belongs to the generation of American writers that includes the late David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody and Jonathan Franzen, to whom this collection is dedicated....
...The title comes from the last line of a poem by Wallace Stevens, a short, deceptively simple musing on how much tumult can clang beneath a serene surface....
...John Updike has fallen from grace....
...A decade has passed since David Foster Wallace took a break from fiction to describe the “mystery and metaphysics” of Federer’s tennis....
...But on the desk in his study, next to the living room, there is a well-thumbed copy of String Theory, a book on tennis by the US writer David Foster Wallace....
...Recurrent protestations of greatness — vocabulary “extraordinarily rich, greater in variety than all the poetry of Yeats, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Larkin combined” — are not only...
...This is a novel that’s so intimate and human, so profound, that it seems like an act of grace....
...Known for the balletic grace with which he floats around the court, the Swiss rarely stumbles, let alone falls....
...William Wallace, the hero of Scotland’s wars of independence, slaughtered an English garrison here in 1297....
...Flamboyant middle names are common in the Caribbean (two favourite examples I’ve encountered are Eudoxie “Gorgeous” Wallace and Cresentia “Pipsin” O’Flaherty), but such embellishments are rare in England...
...In David Foster Wallace’s famous essay “Roger Federer as Religious Experience”, to which Skidelsky refers several times, Wallace claims that “A top athlete’s beauty is next to impossible to describe directly...
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