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...But Jean-Etienne Gourgues, chief executive and chair of Chivas Brothers, part of French drinks group Pernod Ricard, said Scotch was likely to be insulated from slowdowns in individual markets given it is...
...“With outsider art – I prefer Jean Dubuffet’s term ‘art brut’ – there’s a purity and honesty. You see the raw intention and the works vibrate within.”...
...Another wears bright red socks, a white Catalina jacket and a red-and-white gingham shirt — and jeans. Unlike classic Ivy style, these looks are bold, individualistic and worn to be seen....
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Vocal collective Urban Flames strayed into hip-hop, Corinne Bailey Rae floated through Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” and there were tributes to Nat King Cole and Stevie Wonder....
...The Labour manifesto and the Downing Street dinner with Jean-Claude Juncker are examples where the victims came out rather well....
...Stokely Carmichael rallied Black Power. The local police were on record as fearing “the Roundhouse and all that it stands for”....
...“For a council to borrow money is technically easier than for virtually any other organisation,” said Colin Carmichael, chief executive of Canterbury City Council....
...Jean Genet’s 1947 play The Maids is the dramatic equivalent of a hothouse plant: exotic, beautiful and pungent, it will only flourish if the conditions are just right....
...The 58-year-old actor – lean, clean-shaven, with slicked salt-and-pepper hair, dressed in cardigan and jeans – knows that most, if not all, of the audience is there to see the actor they know and love as...
...“Stardust”, the Hoagy Carmichael standard from the 1920s, was recorded by anything between 800 and 1,500 singers....
...away in London) Alexander Korda costume movies like The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) or David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), in which John Mills was scared pipless by Finlay Currie’s Magwitch and Jean...
...In some ways, this revival of Jean Genet’s claustrophobic three-hander, with its power-plays, lesbian incest and homicide, is exactly what one would expect from director Neil Bartlett....
...And Thomas Clay, director and co-writer of The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael , has (re)discovered Newhaven, a nasty bruise on the coastal map where the fishing industry is dying amid ageing monuments...
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