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...While mayhem reigns, there are knowing nods to the wilder shores of recent US politics: Portland Maoists and the far-right “boogaloo” movement....
...Interviewees include filmmakers (among them John Waters and Mary Harron) and habitués such as comedian Stewart Lee and musician Barry Adamson, who contributes the score....
...Cowbois Royal Court Theatre, London The Wild West just got a little wilder....
...One theory is that Jerry Lee, a former CIA case officer in China who was sentenced to prison in 2019 for conspiring to commit espionage, gave the MSS the names of assets....
...Younger designers are a little wilder — Bigger bows! Bigger shoulder pads!” Ultimately, she wants to project “a playfulness in rock and roll fashion that doesn’t exist in other places”....
...Du Maurier tapped into old anxieties about the Cornish landscape and perhaps ensured that a frisson of gothic horror still lingers in its wilder places....
...Under Kew Gardens, away from the crowds, is the biggest collection of preserved fungal specimens in the world, and it was here that the curator Lee Davies told me the macabre story of the zombie cicadas....
...Today, he quotes Billy Wilder, who once told an earnest interviewer: “This is all very kind of you — but I think you’re mistaking me for somebody serious.”...
...She’ll particularly miss “being able to jump on our paddle boards when we like, picking up the kids from parties in a dinghy and taking out the tender to explore wilder parts of the river”....
...And this year — as film-going shrank to fit a world without cinemas — it was hard not to think of Billy Wilder’s Hollywood poison pen and its silent era legend Norma Desmond: “I am big,” she announced in...
...Famous for the unprecedented barbarity of Lee Marvin throwing a pot of boiling coffee into the face of his girlfriend, Gloria Grahame....
...The nature is wilder, the water even purer and the bathing spots less crowded. It is the perfect place to shake off the city dust....
...He was Bruce Lee. He was fantastic. I believe — I certainly hope — that in what I wrote, I flagged Lee’s stardom to come. To my amazement, I was suddenly made richer by doing something I enjoyed....
...The land gets wilder, the sweat stickier, then over the brow of the last hill, smoke is curling up from a fire. Food is being baked in the embers: sweetbreads and butternut squash....
...In May, the US charged a former CIA operative named Jerry Lee with illegally possessing secret information. The CIA believes he provided Beijing with details about its spying operation in China....
...Nor for his wilder side. But as he made clear after: the masks and bondage collars will not be going on sale....
...China is holding out the promise of economic development to Mr Kim if he lowers tensions with the US, Mr Wilder added....
...Dennis Wilder, a former White House Asia aide, said: “The North Koreans are definitely playing it up, which suggests that they are planning for [the summit] to be successful.”...
...Kim’s visit to Beijing demonstrates to all interested countries that China is a central player in northeast Asian geopolitics and that any solution on North Korea will need China’s approval,” said Dennis Wilder...
...Even so, says MUFG currency analyst Lee Hardman, “we still continue to expect the pound to strengthen in the coming months, benefiting from rising political risk in Europe”....
...But the ageing Douglas came to resemble Papa Karamazov, as played by Lee J Cobb in the Hollywood movie: all jaw, overacting and penny-dreadful glitter....
...Holmes, followed by two Holmes-connected characters: Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and, in 1970, Mycroft Holmes, the detective’s brother, for the American director Billy Wilder...
...But the lesson of this research and these early races could still be useful even if the final two candidates are Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio: if the centre is a wilder place than most of us thought,...
...“But, on the contrary, it’s a superior genre, especially the way Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder did it. In Wilder’s films all American society was reflected, even though he was an Austrian.”...
...the prize shortlists and review pages showed, serious novelists have clearly shed any inhibitions they might have once had about venturing into the speculative: David Mitchell, Howard Jacobson, Chang Rae-Lee...
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