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...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...Concern has also spread to Washington: Republican senator Marco Rubio and representative Carol Miller introduced legislation in December that would bar tax credits from Chinese companies....
...In the sense that Madonna, with her constant churn of images and styles, is like a female Bowie, we might see her as a Mick, and when reading an FT interview with Joyce Carol Oates, it struck me that she...
...“I grew up in a world not different from Norma Jeane Baker, and my mother was about that age....
...I’d seen it first on Instagram, or perhaps it was TikTok, where all the cool girls are getting cakes that look like they were plucked from the table of one of Judy Blume’s awkward-yet-adorable teen-girl...
...Glibly, one might say this is Carroll’s take on A Christmas Carol, but Patterson’s existential odyssey is far more wayward and unpredictable than Scrooge’s....
...It was a season in which I felt mended and exalted, as though I were a Christmas carol belted out by angelic choirs....
...I worked with Carol Burnett on her TV show for 11 years and she was always so sane and pulled together, but Judy was a little loose around the edges.”...
...Birtwistle’s breakthrough came with the premiere of Punch and Judy at the 1968 Aldeburgh Festival....
...Recommended reading Last year I became something of the FT’s in-house connoisseur on Trump books, reviewing several of them, including A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig....
...Letters in response to this column: A courageous PM would agree to a Scotland vote / From Carol Duncan, Edinburgh, UK A view from first nation subjugated by the English / From Iestyn Thomas, Cardiff, UK...
...Along the way, he recycles the wisdom of researchers and thinkers from Nietzsche, via Carol “Growth Mindset” Dweck and Angela “Grit” Duckworth, to the late educationalist Sir Ken Robinson....
...“A lot of those houses are rarely let, and when they are it’s to family and friends for a few weeks,” said Judy Pearce, a councillor for Salcombe and Thurlestone in south Devon....
...But Mr Kamani and co-founder Carol Kane were shrewd enough to bring in outside help....
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...I know all the songs and have replacement lyrics for the lines of carols that offend. (For “Lo he abhors not the Virgin’s Womb” which is horrible, try “Lo he is comfortable with parthenogenesis”.)...
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...Boohoo.com’s joint chief executives, Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane, said: "Our multi-brand strategy is delivering above-market rates of growth globally....
...One would not be astonished to see the phrase “growth mindset” — the popular method of encouraging resilience and perseverance after failure, first described by Carol Dweck — appear in Hill’s writing....
...New publishing ventures have been set up to support poets such as Salena Godden, Rob Auton, Harry Baker, Laurie Bolger and Vanessa Kisuule....
...“Rarely attempted, and still more rarely successful, is the bibliomemoir,” began Joyce Carol Oates in her 2014 review of Rebecca Mead’s personal journey around George Eliot, My Life in Middlemarch....
...The carol ends with the gentle lesson that those who “bless the poor/ shall themselves find blessing.”...
...Bubble invited me and his marketing manager Carol Sturch to a particularly sybaritic tasting just before Christmas....
...Shops in the city’s New Market would stock glaće cherries and candied orange peel for home bakers, alongside thick slabs of mango fruit leather and sticks of barley sugar candy....
...Clad in a floral cardigan, Carol can put a casserole in an oven and then kill-or-be-killed before the timer goes off....
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