Hints and tips:
...Your letter writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft corrected Janan Ganesh’s erroneous claim that Labour can only win if led by rightwing leaders by pointing to Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson....
...Brace yourself for petty squabbles over tiaras and dresses....
...It also opens the stage to a cast composed largely of older, Welsh actors, who nip nimbly from role to role as they recreate the cobbled streets, twitching curtains, secret loves and petty grievances of...
...Just shy of 60 years after it was first critically mauled in London, Harold Pinter’s second and breakthrough play is revived at the theatre that now bears his name....
...and ginger fright-wig as a petty, arrogant, vindictive and occasionally plain vulgar Elizabeth, duel in the Wanamaker’s trademark period-faithful candlelight....
...But Harold Arlen and Edgar “Yip” Harburg’s song prevailed, transcending its Depression-era origins to become a kind of anthem for America....
...Too often, Wilson’s “energy and efficiency” have been decried as petty politicking and manoeuvring....
.../ From Bill Emmett The secret of surviving into your 10th decade / From Harold Rubin...
...“Real-life” issues, such as romantic entanglements, petty personal jealousies and alcoholic performers, are raised, but not entwined into the script, and you need sharper one-liners if you are going to match...
...Harold Corsini’s bird’s-eye image of boys playing football in the street comes straight out of European “New Vision” experimentalism, seizing a surprising vantage point to capsize our sense of how things...
...He was also a shrill bigot, anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-labour, and not above blackmailing petty crooks and politicians who might have been seen in the backseat of a car in a procreative position....
...After two decades with a mayor whom critics viewed as a petty autocrat with scant regard for due process, many are balking at the prospect of Mr Emanuel’s confrontational style being brought to City Hall...
...Haley, a former Coast Guard petty officer, claimed Kinte as his forebear....
...He cries off a petty drug-crime case, pleading reason and compassion, but is then backed into a corner by his chief, wielding reason and authority....
...Despite the currency-controls and petty austerities of the 1960s Labour government, Hillier ensured that the best varieties arrived by roundabout routes at Kerdalo....
...And don’t get me started on the Ryanair staff on the ground at Dinard airport – petty, belligerent and frankly inhuman....
...They were highly valued by Harold Pinter, with whom he worked on several occasions, and earned him a CBE in 2004....
...This story of petty larceny is of keen interest to about a dozen people....
...Harold Bloom has labelled him our greatest living writer, but both Tim Parks and John Banville, for example, construe his technique of introducing fantastical elements into real-world scenarios as frivolous...
...Now, that is a terror to make a car bomb, however heavy the butcher’s bill it exacts, seem petty....
...For Paulson not to attend because his German counterpart avoided Washington would be “petty”, a Treasury official said. That’s true....
...Born in 1912 - Sunday would have been his 93rd birthday - Leonard James Callaghan was the son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer....
...Above all there was the seemingly unending austerity of rationing, shortages, government restrictions, petty officialdom and queues, queues, queues....
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