Hints and tips:
...Fanny’s browbeaten son David (a lovely, fidgety performance from Geoffrey Streatfeild) and wise servant Anise (Kate Duchêne, wonderfully beady and precise) are intrigued; the interest of the Romanian count...
...Fiona talks to the experts to find out which blonde is right for now (for what it’s worth, I think no one nailed it as well as Kurt Cobain)....
...The former secretary of state and national security adviser turns 99 in May and is still lauded by Beijing as a wise statesman with a vision for co-operation and coexistence....
...And the idea that there’s some guy that was roughly a contemporary of Confucius and that he had a wise insight about pattern in history, which they like. He said, fantastic....
...He is genial, gossipy and a sharp theorist on everything from the culture wars to the state of the art market, scattering his arguments with references to Van Gogh, Kurt Schwitters and Morecambe and Wise...
...But that does not make them wise....
...Kurt Tong, who served as US consul-general in Hong Kong for three years until June 2019, says Beijing’s strategy of suppressing political opposition without denting business vitality is layered with risk...
...But that doesn’t matter, because that’s not what it’s about . . . ” The only people who actually really understand the script, he says, are movie veterans such as cast members Bruce Dern and Kurt Russell...
...Kurt Schacht is managing director for policy and regulatory relations at CFA Institute...
...Even if the Democrats make big gains in the midterms and retake the presidency in 2020, the outside world might be wise to assume that elements of “Trumpism” are here to stay....
...And in an excerpt from the opera Street Scene, McLorin Salvant captured the essence of Langston Hughes’s lyrics while soaring over the tempo-changing complexities of Kurt Weill’s music....
...In further reading this week, I enjoyed Kurt Wagner's analysis, for Recode, of what has happened at Twitter since founder Jack Dorsey returned to run the social media group in 2015....
...Kurt Simon, global chairman of M&A at JPMorgan, says: “The year is off to a slower start but we are still optimistic about the level of activity. Our backlog is very strong....
...Appropriately for the wintry setting, events snowball pretty quickly; along comes a stagecoach carrying bluff bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his captive, the feral gangstress Daisy Domergue (...
...Invited by film critic Elvis Mitchell, Tarantino put together an impressive cast including Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Goggins and Madsen....
...It is still common to encourage the second softening malolactic fermentation of Chasselas but I wonder whether it is wise. In Montreux, there was discussion of how well Swiss Chasselas can age....
...Kurt M Campbell is chairman and chief executive of the Asia Group and former assistant secretary of state for east Asia and the Pacific...
...“What the vest allows you to do, style-wise, is take off your jacket and still look incredibly rakish and dressed, especially in a business environment.”...
...Andy Warhol made an inexplicable guest appearance as “a wise man”. Weill’s Mahagonny preview, lasting a half hour, sacrificed sensual decadence for cartoon cuteness....
...He finds solace in a friendship with an elderly neighbour, American widower Mr Peterson, with whom he bonds over a shared love for the novels of Kurt Vonnegut....
...Those stats, and a host of others, are extracted from SI’s 6,000 word paean to sportsmen and women who have made less-than-wise investment decisions – like trusting their money to Sir Allen Stanford, as...
...The wise men consider this a move in the wrong direction....
...Bert Rürup, chairman of the “council of wise men” – five highly regarded academics who advise the government on economic policy – came out in favour of a universal hourly minimum wage of €4.50 last week,...
...After Janácek, Offenbach and Kurt Weill, this year’s mini-marathon at the annual festival in Lyons is six one-act operas....
...She enjoys a close relationship with SPD chairman Kurt Beck....
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