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...Yet the festival also keeps up with filmmakers who are more under the radar, such as David and Nathan Zellner (Sasquatch Sunset, apparently about a family of bigfoot creatures) and Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw...
...Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen (John Murray/Harper) An eye-opening chronicle of the multiple ways in which China’s Communist party seeks to exert its power abroad....
...Earlier this year, Wigdor filed another lawsuit on behalf of a Jane Doe who alleges that Epstein forced her to have sex with Black when she was 16. Both legal battles are likely to be protracted....
...Bunting stays in caravans, B&Bs, a decaying once-grand hotel and, in every iteration of chilly, mud-coloured water, she swims....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...It doesn’t seem like full details were required, as some people signed on with pseudonyms (“John Doe” etc)....
...The estate’s ruins inspired paintings by the Romantics, including Landseer and Turner; in his poem “The White Doe of Rylstone”, Wordsworth wrote, “From Bolton’s old monastic tower/The bells ring loud with...
...It joins a tradition of funny, affectionate dramatic pastiches of Jane Austen’s beloved novels....
...Carcanets were also donned by two other of Henry VIII’s wives, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, as well as his daughter Mary I, and were common throughout the Tudor period....
...A useful corrective comes in the form of a new academic study by Jane Green, fellow at Nuffield College, and Roosmarijn de Geus, lecturer at the University of Reading....
...Harding (b 1989)....
...One of these sketches, a portrait of “John Doe 1”, was soon identified by the owner of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, where the suspect had stayed. His name was Timothy McVeigh....
...The friction match was first invented by John Walker, a chemist and druggist from Stockton-on-Tees, in 1826....
...Jane Addams? W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...The leading men were everyman-handsome, not too pretty: Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford, Robert Ryan, John Garfield, Edmond O’Brien, Burt Lancaster....
...And the defence “we’re doing it all for John and Jane Doe” will get a new lease of life....
...Peloton founder John Foley and his wife were SoulCycle and Flywheel enthusiasts, but they became annoyed with classes selling out....
...The only suitable one available at the time was The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, worth £50,000 and too delicate and valuable to borrow....
...Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H Lime, Suffolk, England; Maxine Broadbent, Derbyshire...
...Jane Mayer’s excellent New Yorker profile of McConnell is well worth your time....
...At the same time, he divided staff into “A, B and C players”, ranked on a “vitality curve”, with the Cs in the bottom 10 per cent ruthlessly ditched....
...Know My Name, the new memoir from Chanel Miller, the “Emily Doe” who was violently and sexually assaulted by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, came out this week....
...It was his university tutor, Jane Atfield, who encouraged his reimaginings of chairs....
...Day of the Triffids and subsequent B-movie, have not helped — and yet they can be the most rewarding to grow, if you know a few tricks to keep them thriving....
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