Hints and tips:
...I once had a hot chocolate there so overpriced it had obviously been hand-harvested in the Ivory Coast and flown in on Elon Musk’s private jet....
...Butler-Adams wants his staff to find him approachable. The Brompton T-shirt is key. “If I’m in my ivory tower . . . and I’m wearing a suit and tie . . ....
...“I have to tend to them as though they’re babies,” says Wilson of the rows of ceramics drying in her kiln in the butler’s pantry....
...Are your walls painted in Masai (brownish-red), Debutante’s Gown (ivory) or Meghan (purple)? I thought not. Are you sleeping in “Santorini” bed linen or driving around in a Range Rover “Vogue”?...
...The last two are short, for ivory-hued fingernail parings....
...flourished in newly free nations in the exuberant aftermath of independence, such as Ghana’s flying saucer-like International Trade Fair Centre, or the gleaming white tower block of the Hotel Ivoire in Ivory...
...natural and physical sciences and more, students are expected to read a wide range of authors from Plato, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, Joan Didion and Judith Butler...
...Sticking a shako (a tall military hat) on their heads made them look as if they had just walked out of an Elizabeth Butler canvas....
...films, he says, there wasn’t an obvious genre to receive them — certainly not in the case of Never Let Me Go, and to an extent also with The Remains of the Day, which needn’t have been the classic Merchant-Ivory...
...It became a critically acclaimed international bestseller and was adapted into a film by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. This early success liberated Ishiguro....
...Musk oxen, snowy owls, ivory gulls, Arctic hares, white gyrfalcons – the sightings just don’t stop. At Navy Road Inlet, a pod of orcas swims right under our bow....
...Fay Weldon wrote for Upstairs, Downstairs and Harold Pinter had the first pass at Remains of the Day, but when the Merchant-Ivory duo who produced the film rewrote it, he took his name off the credits....
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