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...She grew up watching the hit 1980s show Cagney & Lacey in which a career-minded single woman and a mother-of-three busted crime and sexism in New York....
...Platinum-selling singer Aloe Blacc, 41, draws on influences from salsa, merengue and cumbia in his fusion of soul, folk, R&B and pop....
...I wrote that I wanted to be an author and an interior designer, and also work part-time in Toys R Us. Private school or state school? University or straight into work?...
...To accompany their dinners at home, the team at Crown Shy in New York has been curating “beats-driven” playlists (“everything from ’90s hip-hop to breakbeat and R ’n’ B”, says partner and general manager...
...Her awards include the 2012 Best R & B Performance Grammy for “Is This Love”. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To be a ballerina. Private school or state school?...
...Brenston was a saxophonist, the Delta Cats an R&B band led by Ike Turner (they also recorded under the name Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm); together they created an explosive song that is considered...
...Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, by Robert Lacey, Harper, RRP£20/RRP$29.99 A biography of the super-agent who built the Ford model empire, Lacey’s book provides a fascinating insight...
...The r-word is considered so unlucky that it is never used by Portland locals, who refer instead to “coneys” or “burrowing mutton”....
...Thus we have “The Politician”, whose mechanism allows him to blow hot air; “R.O.S.A.B.O.S.O.M.” (1966) – her gigantic red lips fuelled by an old airplane motor – whose feminist anima would be recycled in...
...Andrew Motion pulled it off with his life of Philip Larkin (1993); Byron Rogers’ The Man who Went into the West (2006) presents the Welsh poet-priest R.S....
...Al Jarreau, 71, is one of the most important figures in the history of R&B and jazz. He is the only vocalist to have won Grammys in three categories – jazz, pop and R&B – among many other awards....
...I went on to Cambridge, very deliberately to study with F.R. Leavis. I always call myself a Leavisite even though it’s a silly expression. Who was your mentor? I’m not sure I had one....
...F.R. Leavis. His books and teaching were instrumental in focusing me on Charles Dickens and his insistence that literature is not entertainment, but has a moral force, is one of the tenets of my life....
...My grandfather; my schoolmaster D.A.R. Young, a singular educational force; Sandy Crawford, a gynaecological surgeon who was a most generous teacher; and my professor, John McClure Browne....
...waste, reportedly flew 300 guests to the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat in the south of France, at a rumoured cost of £4m ($6.4m); the entertainment was provided by Andrea Bocelli, the Italian tenor, and by R&...
...Bonner (R-AL) 13. Boswell (D-IA) 14. Boucher (D-VA) 15. Braley (D-IA) 16. H. Brown (R-SC) 17. D. Burton (R-IN) 18. Butterfield (D-NC) 19. Buyer (R-IN) 20. Carney (D-PA) 21....
...Richard Lacey, who five years ago set up R&A Electrical, an electrical contractor, estimates that he has lost about £7,000 through late or non-payment by customers who have gone bust because of the economic...
...worries Hoskyns, a thwarted Boswell who worships and writes well about Waits’s work. The question is not satisfactorily resolved....
...If the personal investments generated capital gains, you both would have your annual exemptions (£9,600 fo r 2008/09) to offset before you paid tax at 18 per cent....
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