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...I kind of Miss Marple my way into people’s personalities. I like to say I’m like a slimming mirror for my clients. I try to create spaces that reflect them at their thinnest and most glamorous....
...I’m Lulu Smyth, in for Lilah Raptopoulos. [MUSIC PLAYING] What I’m about to say might sound absurd, but books are having a cultural moment right now....
...“I’m so lucky to do this job,” she says. “We’re all seeing the horrific images of Russia’s conflict in Ukraine....
...The little English town I’m living in during lockdown looks more like an idealised illustration of Miss Marple’s village every week....
...She would say something absolutely spot-on and then look at us as if to say, “You know I’m right.”...
...As with many cult detective props, like Jessica Fletcher’s orb-like earrings in Murder, She Wrote, or Miss Marple’s herringbone tweed and hat, Gråbøl found Lund’s essential being in her pullover: a symbol...
...I’m not going to establish the new order.” Order of a different kind was exactly what she sought to establish after joining Royal Mail....
...It’s an exhilarating cross between Fritz Lang’s M and the Famous Five....
...Another itemises the sexual innuendoes in George Formby’s song of 1937, “When I’m Cleaning Windows”....
...“Things are a bit better, but I’m certainly poorer than I was two years ago,” said Lydia Rybakova, a pensioner....
...“I’m sure they can come up with all sorts of fancy plans, but they’ve got to return to conventional financing,” he said. “Unless they get an IMF programme, things just won’t improve.”...
...“If you say to somebody, ‘I’m sorry I can’t make that meeting because I’m going to the House of Lords’, what they’re hearing is, ‘I can’t make that meeting because I’m going yachting.’...
...“If Russia had not changed its opinion, I think we would have had enough people to shake him – now I’m not sure,” said Mr Neklyayev....
...I’m even having a few Miss Marple moments. Take the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who was giving evidence this week....
...ITV’s stab at doing a series based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple – a lady “detective” of a certain age – began with Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (ITV Sunday)....
...“I’m living every moment,” he e-mailed. I’m sorry: that’s all I could get out of him. But what about Argentina?...
...Cicely Mayhew, the first woman to join the British diplomatic service, lives in a handsome cottage near Blenheim Palace, on a street that once served as a set for “Miss Marple”....
...I’m amazed by the welcome Miss Jane Marple receives from the relatives she descends on. Superficially, Aunt Jane appears to be the kind of old lady that HRT and the 1960s have made extinct....
...From this great thing, we switch, in the pages that follow, to the little business of the heroine’s activities - a jolly Miss Marple in an unhappy place made the less unhappy by her benign presence....
...I’m not writing that way because they want that – it’s just the way I write....
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