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...The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Bach AA Milne Peanuts Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Round Two Snowflake Kit Kat Aeroflot Picnic at Hanging Rock Guns N’ Roses The fingers Yorkie Boost Bourbon Bounty...
...Jalen N’Gonda sings with the caressing falsetto of a Smokey Robinson or Al Green and has the relaxed sense of time to match....
...The writer is a senior managing director at Brock Securities a centre associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...
...There are the bathing huts, promenades, bandstands and municipal flowerbeds but there are also the saucy postcards, amusement arcades, greasy paper packets of fish’n’chips and sticks of rock....
...The advent of rock’n’roll, however, saw the ukulele sidelined by thunderous electric guitar riffs....
...But in the 1970s and 1980s, Britons turned their backs on merry-go-rounds, Punch & Judy shows and sandwiches with real sand in them and jetted off on package holidays instead....
...What seems perfectly idyllic – a moment n the park, the wind rising gently – brings us home again to the fact that we’re only taking a respite from our work....
...The surprising thing, explains Judy Pearsall, editorial director for dictionaries in OUP’s global academic division, is that a quarter of these monthly visits are coming from outside what we think of as...
...“Name one pop or rock ’n’ roll guy who actually made a living in country music – and I think it might just be me,” Rucker agrees....
...For Rufus Wainwright, sitting in a dressing room backstage at Latitude festival, rock ‘n’ roll habits die hard....
...Kunzru prefaces the novel with three epigrams that lead us into the heart of the matter, particularly the telling line “Dans le désert, voyez-vous, il y a tout, et il n’y a rien …c’est Dieu sans les hommes...
...So I wrote in my journal that night and I thought of the letters O-W-N, standing for Oprah Winfrey Network (I’m always looking for signs)....
...UK negotiators in the EU, coming from the Punch-and-Judy politics of London, cannot adapt to slow consensus-building. They see all decisions in terms of victory or defeat....
...Judy Adamson, Monmouthshire JW: Changes to the WTC seem limited....
...At 19, he got a job as an usher at CBS Television City where, on his first day, he was assigned to The Judy Garland Show....
...“Today, there are collectors specifically focusing on Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish,” says Rathbone....
...Sit-N-Snooze has a nice ring to it, much better than Slack-Back, which connotes frequent trips to the chiropractor....
...He believes that S&N must transform itself from a brewing business into a “brand, consumer and customer-led business”, he maintains....
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