Hints and tips:
...At the very end, Dupieux appears to have insouciantly glanced at the clock and decided that the slow-burn approach has lasted quite long enough....
...Sontag stands to defend herself, but we’re spared by the arrival of Joan Didion....
...In Mad Men, secretary Joan cooks up a storm to impress the boss of her doctor husband, who, it turns out, isn’t quite the stellar surgeon she believed him to be....
...Bragg still has a house on the edge of the Lake District, not far from Wigton, and remains in touch with people there, including his teenage girlfriend Joan (“Thank goodness she liked the book”)....
...She’s also strangely fragile, her pale, freckled skin always on the brink of burn. She looks like the sort of person who gets savaged by mosquitoes, because bugs don’t care who’s a billionaire....
...The next person to see Karen was Joan, the wig-store proprietor, who noticed the girl hop off the back of a motorcycle. The women chatted as Joan wrapped up Karen’s hairpiece....
...“First of all, we’ve got to make sure we’re not going to burn,” she says....
...In “Made to Burn”, Kushner gives readers an insight into the layout of her writing space, describing images by the likes of David Salle, Andy Warhol and Danny Lyon that she pinned to the walls to inspire...
...Last December Joan Shelley played a concert in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, with the Best Hands band — a collection of friends and collaborators with stellar countryfolk careers in their own right...
...The jazzy opening line of Joan Armatrading’s most famous song, “Love and Affection”, may read like a corny dinner-date seduction, but 40 years of hindsight belies that interpretation....
...I unplug the charging cord, which is so hot it almost burns my hand. Yui takes the wheel, and we race through the curves of the Tahoe forest. In the back, only one of the kids throws up....
...Joan of Arc would have gone to Soul Cycle. Wonder Woman would have manifested her future on the bike, before flying off to save the world....
...But it would be unfair to box The Book of Joan into tidy allegory. The pleasure of this novel is its inventive energy; it aims to burn itself into your skin....
...Barcelona’s Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, named after the club’s founder, sits at the western edge of town....
...As the outcry against Wolf’s jokes gathered momentum last week, though, I could sense Joan Rivers turning in her grave....
...“He’s not as decisive as I’d like,” said Ms Burn, who did not vote in the last election....
...George Burns and Bob Hope both became centenarians. (Perhaps humour helps.)...
...Or a signal that, pushing formal qualities to an end point, it went nowhere, could only burn itself out?...
...(It also recalls the winsomely flaming Joan of Arc on the back cover of the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen.)...
...Or have they got air miles into Heathrow to burn up. I’m sure television companies have a major say in England tour schedules....
...But his love for pop music still burns bright, as shown by the care with which he picks his support acts....
...“I joined his workroom of 14 women near Oxford Street,” she adds, “his clients then included Princess Diana and Joan Collins....
...Politicians, including former political adversaries such as Lords Heseltine and Howe, will be invited to attend alongside world leaders and celebrities, such as Joan Collins and Jeremy Clarkson....
...McCall’s use of smoke is as impressively choreographed as the fires, and while they burn out, the landscape is shrouded as if by the approach of darkness....
...She was basically Joan of Arc. Whenever Chartres spoke of “her” I looked at the coffin again, in the midst of all the majesty, in wonder....
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