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...Trappings abound of the 1980s, not least a sly snippet of Nancy Reagan urging us to Just Say No....
...June 2; further information here Festival American Black Film Festival An annual celebration of Black artists and media from around the world, with indie film screenings, studio premieres, masterclasses...
...His next book ‘The Bezzle’, published by Head of Zeus, is out this month....
...latest polling averages assembled by Realclearpolitics.com, Trump has a large advantage over Florida governor Ron DeSantis in the battle for the Republican nomination, and only narrowly trails Biden in a head-to-head...
...The result is an antic black comedy of campus manners....
.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...Without it, he might have slumped forward after Lee Harvey Oswald’s first shot, thus avoiding the second, fatal bullet to the head....
...The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...The craftsmanship was exquisite — those black-and-white looks were created from inlaid scraps of chiffon and lace, intricately patchworked....
...Jonathan Black, head of the careers service at the University of Oxford, reports on how employers are having to change their recruitment practices....
...It featured a black-and-white striped hallway that appeared in magazines, led to a surge of requests – and inspired the pair to join forces....
...“There they lay in the thick mud of the trenches and craters, unburied, staring at us out of black, gaping eye sockets.”...
...While the two get into scrapes together, it is Paul who invariably avoids serious consequences (mom is head of the PTA; dad once fixed the cop’s boiler)....
...In Himid’s version, Hogarth’s dissolute countess is Margaret Thatcher, her illicit lover Ronald Reagan — lounging on a stars-and-stripes divan, missiles thrusting from his crotch....
...Other talking heads fill in the gaps, with close collaborators including his early stage partner Carmen de Lavallade, and Judith Jamison, who went on to direct the company after Ailey’s death....
...He signed up again in 1961, recalling in his memoirs that for “a black, no other avenue in American society offered so much opportunity”....
...Two sisters in matching shell-pink dresses sit beneath symmetrically placed Georgian portraits; two gentlemen in tails enjoy pink champagne on an Atlantic-facing lawn; a woman pokes her head out from behind...
...We had two Black churches. Now, we travel to pray. We had two feed stores. Now, we travel to buy hay. Where, oh where has prosperity gone?...
...But most of the core stuff and the stuff £55bn fiscal black hole was where you’ve been reporting it for weeks....
...“There is a long history of the ‘war on drugs’ and famously President Reagan’s wife Nancy led a campaign ‘Just Say No’....
...He advised president George W Bush and was a highly respected champion of the type of free-market ideas espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher....
...It also defended Ronald Reagan in 1980 over an attempt to block him from receiving $29.4m in federal election funds....
...While Joe Biden is the first president to wear the all-American label to his swearing-in, he follows a long line of Democrats and Republicans alike to favour the brand, from Nancy Reagan to George W Bush...
...In an exposed trench wall was a narrow line of black ash. The Mongols, he said, 1241. We ran our hands over the burnt layer....
...In tracing the buried histories of tourism by black South Africans, who visited the Kruger all through the 20th century (even when they were not made to feel welcome), he explores how the game park might...
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