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...Luke Popovich Washington, DC, US...
...These are urgent issues and the show feels timely: a blast of positivity for audiences confronted daily by grim news and divisive public discourse....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...Early scenes sketch out the grim, exhausting poverty from which the couple came and we see the young Bonnie and Clyde daydreaming of escape....
...reckons Dr Luke McDonagh of the London School of Economics, an expert on intellectual property rights and the arts....
...He is the subject of a superb new study, a source of relief in this time of grim world news. I recommend it, Nature’s Favourite Child by Cathryn Spence....
...The death toll, already grim, is climbing. Western nations are discussing a Russian oil import ban, so stocks fell and oil soared. Today, I look at two economic questions this war has posed....
...As I advised in a column about kitchen floors last year, you have to forgive and forget linoleum’s grim reputation....
...A neighbour did indeed leave a jar of jam — blackberry — on our doorstep on a grim, grey day back in November, and it put a smile on my face for the whole day. Merry Christmas!...
...(On a truly grim day I’ll forgo the icebox and remain at the dining table.)...
...Here, Anya and Luke journey to a hotel in the South of France (which is where Luke proposes), and thereafter take a trip down to Cornwall to visit his Brexiter parents....
...If that sounds grim, it’s not. It’s peppered with wry humour as the hard-pressed workers bicker, flirt and despair while their charges dither, complain and challenge....
...These are grim times. I was relieved, then, to receive a press release last week from Accenture, heralding its “biggest brand move in a decade”....
...“It’s quite grim at the moment in terms of what we’re experiencing and we know it’s continuing to get worse.”...
...This article was originally published on 19 April 2019 Luke answers readers’ questions on design and stylish living every fortnight....
...Seen in this light, President Donald Trump’s disingenuous attempts to equate the fortunes of Wall Street with those of the country at large make a kind of grim sense....
...Forget its grim reputation. These days it is easy to find well-designed, durable and ecologically friendly options....
...Maiden figures and guidance from new CEO Mark Allan were grim but in line, but the conference call may as well have been directed by Lars Von Trier....
...As for the grim state of London sofas? “Pop a cover on.”...
...In the title role, Christopher Eccleston is grim, gruff, brisk and all those adjectives that seem to believe stretching to a second syllable is a bit milquetoast....
...No surprise, perhaps, but still grim reading....
...It all seemed rather forbiddingly grim until the man in the bookshop, whose nail-varnish matched his black beard, unexpectedly smiled....
...With Stabat Mater I used to wonder how Pergolesi could wring so many shades of feeling out of such a grim situation: a mother helplessly standing by while the life leaked out of her son....
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