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...The Olsens regularly offset classic outfits with slightly off-kilter footwear, meaning that repeat wears of a black cashmere sweater and jeans, or a white shirt and midi skirt for example, never become dull...
...Goldin found men relatively dull, at least as a topic of study....
...“It was a dull, monotonous job,” he reflected, “and I asked myself if things would always continue like this . . . if the momentous opportunity would really come.”...
...While America’s next election looks like being a choice between two old men, one of them a charlatan, ours will be between two sensible, if slightly dull, candidates....
...In the 1990s and 2000s, London’s five-stars were seen as dreary backwaters, good only for elderly tourists to sit in dull corporate restaurants — the hipsters were all at warehouse parties in Hackney Wick...
...Fried Frank has named Lawrence Natke as a partner in its M&A and private equity practice, based in New York. He joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel. Smart reads Apollo 2.0?...
...Without playfulness, royal grandeur dulls into Hollywood kitsch: Annie Leibovitz’s melodramatic presentation from 2007 looks crass....
...As Robert Lawrence points out, a large part of this decline is due to a decline in demand for manufacturers in rich countries as they got richer, and to the price of those goods declining....
...Boarded up and forlorn, the building is a dull cliff of stained grey limestone. But the idea of the Waldorf Astoria is indelible. It is a myth as much as it is a building and institution....
...‘Yes, he is a little bit dull but he will get Johnson on detail’ Boris Johnson this week faced Keir Starmer, the UK opposition Labour party’s new leader, at prime minister’s questions for the first time...
...Lyndsey Turner’s handsome revival (at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre) revels in the deliberately anachronistic details: Amanda Lawrence’s brilliantly learned Pope, making up for the forced abstemiousness...
...were vague and dull....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The best presents both surprise and delight the recipient / From John Boothman, St Lawrence, Jersey, CI...
...DH Lawrence had a weakness for cotton summer dresses....
...Additional reporting by Will Lawrence...
...Still, Mr Blitzer notes that US home buyers are far less over-extended than they were in the lead up to the financial crisis, which could dull the impact of any eventual pull back in the market....
...This is, in part, a very good show that declines into a dull one....
...Be gone, dull realism. Here the swags and flourishes of De Palma’s last great brainstorm Dressed To Kill are re-touched to create an other-worldly fable about our world....
...His wife is dead; his father Lawrence is in a nursing home. Lewis’s daughter Ruth visits him and brings dull soup, which he doesn’t like....
...Knight’s story is anything but dull....
...O’Toole was seldom dull, even when his movies were....
...Dull but heavily cropping grape varieties have been ditched, with superior, though harder-to-grow, vine types taking their place....
...he is “working on Lawrence”....
...The executive: Lawrence Merritt Silence is not always golden. But the medium can’t distort reality either....
...Who said fishing was dull? ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ is on release in the US now and in the UK next month...
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