Hints and tips:
...Michael Lipton’s wife of 56 years, Merle Lipton, a distinguished historian and political analyst, passed away just three months before him. He is survived by his son Emanuel, and his grandson, Joshua....
...I just read Glyn Johns’ Sound Man; he was an engineer on The Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main St and The Beatles’s “Let It Be” – all those heavy sounds of the ’70s....
...Merle Hensel’s minimalist brushed-steel set serves to universalise their conflict and obscure the fact that Mike Bartlett’s play revolves around that well-worn trope, the Angry Dinner Party....
...Mrs Osmond , by John Banville, Viking, RRP£14.99, 384 pages Illustration by Daniel Long...
...In James’s Portrait of a Lady, the worldly Madame Merle makes her entrance as a vivid riddle....
...We recorded three weeks of live sessions, inviting musicians including Elton John, Willie Nelson, Ana Gabriel, Rhiannon Giddens, Raphael Saadiq, the late Merle Haggard, Jack White, Los Lobos, Steve Martin...
...Another friend, composer John Cage, whom she met in 1980, “influenced my art by simply conveying how important it is to do it,” she says....
...I was very proud of it, and then I played it in a bar and a guy comes up and says, “That sure doesn’t sound like Merle Haggard’s ‘White Line Fever’.” Where is your favourite place in the world?...
...Although the major record labels annually add to their slush-pile of schmaltz – this year Rod Stewart, Lady Antebellum, and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have released Christmas fare – the same few...
...It has been giving Americans second chances since the Joad family came to the Weedpatch work camp, a few miles south of the city, in John Steinbeck’s Great Depression novel, The Grapes of Wrath....
...The actor is trapped in a Victorian sanatorium, with the green tiles of Merle Hensel’s set looming high above him. If the walls are a throwback, the evening’s technology is up-to-date....
...“We are calling on Tea Party supporters and conservatives to rally behind the only candidate that has demonstrated over and over again that he’s the one who can compete against Mitt Romney,” John Brabender...
...Merle Hostetler, former director of research of the Cleveland Fed. Over forty or so pages, Hostetler provides an annotated tour from the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War....
...- Further listening, Merle Hazard is doing European debt ditties all this week....
...Merle Haggard I Am What I AmVanguard When Johnny Cash played at San Quentin prison, Merle Haggard was in the audience....
...John Platter, a foreign correspondent turned winemaker, gave his name to it even though he is no longer involved in the John Platter South African Wine Guide....
...“Sure, I’m worried about it – I’ve lost a couple of hundred thousand dollars in the past few weeks,” said Merle Widmer, vice-chairman of the Peoria county board....
...Mr Obama has never delivered a speech that confronts his racial identity directly in the way John F....
...But, like the rest of the north-eastern US, the state lost people to the south and west, notes Merle Black, professor of government and politics at Emory University in Atlanta....
...As Democrats elsewhere in the US celebrated victory in last week’s midterm election, John Bradbury, the party’s candidate in Georgia’s ninth congressional district, had little to cheer about....
...John McCain of Arizona said this week he would vote against such a move–dubbed “the nuclear option”–and several other moderate Republicans have expressed misgivings....
...Bush's tax cut and the nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney-general. But Washington did not sit well with Mr Miller....
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