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...Yet perhaps the most familiar of familiars is the cat, with its recurring presence in ghost stories from the time of Edgar Allen Poe onwards....
...Then it was Lily Allen playing Jenny, the young mother who is convinced her house is haunted and tries to persuade her husband to believe her, while the two host a dinner party....
...Christie’s is not holding back on the superlatives for its guaranteed, charitable auction of the “collection of incomparable magnitude” from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018....
...Three other works, by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Auguste Rodin, went to buyers from Asia, Sotheby’s said....
...He starts by offering a description of it as a complex, fluid emotion, drawing on memoirs of grieving by Joan Didion and Roland Barthes, and The Unfortunates, a novel by the British writer BS Johnson, which...
...Joan Baez was “wicked-looking — shiny black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes, partly raised”....
...Another inspiration for Wu is the building in which Casa Ahorita is set – a former theatre that was once home to William Burroughs and his wife, the erudite but largely unpublished poet Joan Vollmer....
...New York gave us Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers, Saturday Night Live. This year I’ve seen more comedians perform live than I can count....
...Add in a demented fan, however, and things get interesting, especially with Julianne Moore, Joan Allen and Jennifer Jason Leigh playing very weird sisters in King’s adaptation of his own novel....
...and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton....
...Park, the John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion-scripted tale of heroin addiction that launched Al Pacino’s career....
...Her colleagues include ex-Labour MPs Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, Mike Gapes and Ann Coffey. Ms Soubry said she was “deeply disappointed” that the six MPs had left....
..., Anna Soubry and Joan Ryan....
...Anna Wiener’s memoir Uncanny Valley (Fourth Estate £16.99/MCD $27, January) promises a coming-of-age story played out in the Klondike of the modern age or, as reviewer Rebecca Solnit claims, “Joan Didion...
...Joan Acocella, a journalist, recalled a typically ghastly dinner: “Susan would say something about Artaud; then she’d say to Annie, ‘Well, you wouldn’t understand who that is’.”...
...”); legendary folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (“More of a sailor than a singer” — Dylan admired his knot-tying); playwright Sam Shepard (“He had a special knowledge of the underworld”); and beat poet Allen...
...Joan Crawford never made any secret of her humble background, nor of her fierce ambition....
...Sassoon quotes the great Cambridge economist (and admirer of Mao) Joan Robinson: “Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.”...
...Comment from Nick Antill on “The Philip Green case is not as simple as it seems” by David Allen Green (October 26)“Whatever the rights and wrongs of NDAs there is absolutely no doubt that Lord Hain abused...
...I learnt experimental psychology from Stephen Kosslyn, linguistic theory from Joan Bresnan, and psycholinguistics (and prose style) from Roger Brown....
...Included in their collection at Christie’s are Vincent van Gogh’s “Laboureur dans un champ” (1889), est $50m and Joan Miró’s “Peinture” (1933, est $18m-$25m)....
...Joan Marsh, head of regulatory and state external affairs, highlighted Google’s decision last week to withhold its YouTube service from Amazon devices....
...Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, Allen Lane, RRP£20 At about 21m, the world’s refugee population is higher than at any time since 1945....
...Last year Woody Allen’s Café Society opened the festival....
...But the second act’s supporting characters, even strongly cast (Joan Allen, William H. Macy), seem just that. Stick figures to crutch-prop a parable. It’s the first act that mesmerises....
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