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...Joyce stayed in the upper chamber, modestly appointed with whitewashed stone walls, bare wooden floors, a naked table with two chairs and a hammock in the corner....
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...For at least 15 years Joyce DiDonato has been one of a handful superlative singers equally at ease in comedy and tragedy, and equally eloquent in four languages....
...It’s 1953 in Leningrad and a man and a woman have been deliberately killed....
...As its title indicates, Joyce’s lament is also a call to remember. There is no need for us to romanticise a world where near-unimaginable toil and suffering were woven into the fabric of daily life....
...Scarf pleated dress, £5,450 Zimmermann poly-mix Junie swimsuit, £295, selfridges.com Vintage Chinese wooden sideboard, €2,918, pamono.eu Agua by Agua Bendita recycled-polyester bikini top, £220, net-a-porter.com...
...He says the vessel is both “part of the fabric” of the Thames and a national event. “Other little ships were involved [at Dunkirk], but this went back to its day job,” he says....
...“There is little evidence that Beijing has the policies to achieve the growth target it has declared,” the Financial Times editorial board summed up....
...safety committee chair David Joyce....
...Bitcoin euphoria is back, with fresh highs for much of this week, before falling a little. So what would Sam do?...
...We’re at the mercy of Lockheed Martin’s wording, but if we assume that the final category was also roughly half-and-half deadheads and Taiclet flying, it still looks . . . a little inefficient....
...Should a marriage not work out, there could be a ring for that, too....
...At other times there is too little: everything happens in a single institutional room, the walls battleship grey. It’s too non-committal for the drama. Then comes the finale: De Rocher’s execution....
...“The best thing I can do under these circumstances is to bring forward my retirement,” Joyce said in a statement....
...Once upon a time, if a theatre producer wanted to put on a new play or musical, they might spend the morning ringing contacts from their little black book, beg a few thousand from each and capitalise the...
...Qantas posted its first annual profit since the onset of Covid-19, as long-serving chief executive Alan Joyce signed off his tenure with a financial recovery....
...I work full-time and earn an above-average salary, but with a family of five, being able to earn a little extra on the side from eBay has been a very helpful supplement to our household income....
...They have not relinquished their mobiles but take regular selfies, which makes them look a little vapid....
...In the first vote, which called for a truce (not a ceasefire), eight EU states were in favour, four were against and 15 abstained....
...“This is a classic Joyce move: pretend to take responsibility while pocketing obscene amounts of money,” he said in a statement. Qantas would not comment on whether Joyce’s pay would be reviewed....
...Luka Ivan Jukic’s review of Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World is surely right that there is no need to romanticise the world of “near-unimaginable toil and suffering...
...In A Nasty Little War, Anna Reid has written a thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining account of a military intervention that has — in comparison with the two world wars and other conflicts — largely...
...The 65-minute “play for two” takes place on a stage lined with plastic sheeting and features two rubber octopuses, a silicone foetus, a goldfish bowl and a garden sprinkler that drenches both stage and performers...
...“If you look at James Joyce you see a very pure artist,” she says. “You can deduce a kind of a political leaning or sympathy in Joyce, but it’s not explicit . . . I don’t really like polemics.”...
...“Whether it’s a name we are aware of or not, many of us will have a little bit of Mien in our gardens,” writes Crawford....
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