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...News business models are in flux with all corners of the industry, from television to digital to print media, under financial strain. Trust in news organisations continues to fall to all-time lows....
...The Rev Canon Alison Joyce is rector of St Bride’s Church in London...
...Australian authorities are battling outbreaks of the highly infectious Delta strain of Covid-19 in Sydney and Brisbane and have implemented strict lockdowns and state border closures....
...Just 8 per cent of Australian adults have been fully vaccinated, a failure that critics warned had left citizens vulnerable to the spread of the highly contagious Delta strain....
...The analysis suffers from an overemphasis on Plath’s juvenilia, which is treated with an earnestness that sometimes strains credulity....
...Recordings of the series of seven interpretations by different top-tier dancers are streaming to Jan 10 ($13 a ticket, joyce.org)....
...A relationship rapidly develops but Ruth’s arrival sets off revelations of complicated histories, and a choice that will strain Luke’s fragile equilibrium....
...This is not on the same level: scratch the surface and there is a strain of hyperactive camp that becomes very wearisome....
...At the same time, gallerists and other intermediaries intensely feel the financial strains of flying, showing and entertaining around the world....
...For some, this may be the chance to finally get around to finishing Joyce or Proust, or to seek solace in works elsewhere....
...But ranged against Mrs May were ministers who warned that such a move would compromise Britain’s security and put an intolerable strain on relations with allies, most notably the US....
...The strain in their marriage is exacerbated by the paternal role that “Mad Pete,” a septuagenarian artist “once famous for filling a gallery with painted dicks”, begins to play in Lanny’s life, as he teaches...
...She sees it as a civic duty to defend the religion — against both the misconceptions of non-Muslims and against what she sees as the corrupting influence of certain strains of Islamic theology, notably Saudi...
...The scandal has placed strain on the coalition between the Liberal and the National parties, which is lagging behind the opposition in opinion polls....
...The ONS data hint at the psychological strain of long-term poverty — just over a third of people living in persistent poverty reported high levels of anxiety, compared with a fifth of the general population...
...Joe Joyce added to the tally on Sunday, winning silver in the final of men’s boxing super heavyweight division, one of the last events of the games....
...Although he clearly draws on a Scottish literary tradition, there are other Celtic influences at work too: Joyce’s fragmentary assembly of narrative and that blackly comic strain characteristic of so many...
...Despite strains on the public finances, George Osborne, then chancellor, announced a 29 per cent increase in funding for UK Sport during the spending review last November....
...“Mulier Cantat” — the reference is to Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, for whom “the soft beauty of the Latin word touched with an enchanting touch the dark of the evening” — evokes singing and water; the words...
...Aircraft can undertake as many as seven flights a day, suffering the strain of taking off and the shocks of landing on each one....
...www.joyce.org...
...So I got up at dawn and decided to “let the train take the strain”. As I arrived on that ghostly concourse of Paddington, I noticed a warm and inviting stand selling an array of freshly baked pasties....
...Joyce Theater...
...But the nods to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf feel laboured, while a tendency to strain for significance in the tiniest details inevitably produces diminishing returns....
...Though in many ways not a modernist, he nonetheless belongs in the company of the big boys of bad times: Joyce, Kafka, Musil, Svevo, Mann....
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