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...The script by Jamaican-Canadian writer-director Clement Virgo keeps circling back to this scene, its appearance visually striking but its significance never made clear....
...Exiled from the good graces of her omnipotent editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, the fledgling assistant doesn’t stand a chance in the cut-throat world of high fashion....
...Roland Petit whose wit and chic showed Zizi Jeanmaire as a supreme theatrical artist; and such small, potent ballets as Lichine’s Oedipe et le Sphinx, where drama blazed in performance by Jean Babilée and Leslie...
...Chris Leslie, the party’s former shadow chancellor, says: “I keep thinking I will wake up and Bobby Ewing will step out of the shower.”...
...Because of the clarity and power of his art, his appearances in roles as varied as Oedipus (with Leslie Caron the Sphinx); as the Joker in Jeu de Cartes (Stravinsky’s score made anarchic flesh in his dancing...
...However, Leslie Southwick, the judge writing the majority opinion on the Fifth Circuit, said there was “nothing fundamentally unreasonable about what BP accepted but now wishes it had not”....
...Two weeks after the dropping of the atomic bombs that ended the war with Japan, Britain’s prime minister, Clement Attlee, circulated a top-secret memorandum to an inner circle of ministers....
...Take last year’s Barbican Double Bill: Clement Crisp, the FT’s critic, judged it an ultimately disappointing performance of two halves....
...He designed book covers for editions of Simenon’s Maigret and Leslie Charteris’s The Saint. He had taken the perfect training, although art school was not the way....
...Yes, Meryl Streep is coming to play her. Not quite for Hollywood, more for Pathé, BBC Films and director Phyllida Lloyd, who made Mamma Mia!. I can’t wait. If Maggie Mia!...
...In an otherwise favourable review, the FT’s dance critic Clement Crisp lambasted “hobbledehoy choreographic experiments”. What does “hobbledehoy” mean?...
...But this dance for six women is clear in exploring social and historical attitudes, and cunningly served in its music: Weill’s “Je ne t’aime pas” and a brassy ballad by Leslie Bricusse, both gloriously sung...
...An earlier production, decorated by Leslie Hurry in the 1940s, was without bluster or fripperies, and Swan Lake spoke its truths about impossible love, choreographic sublimity, a tremendous score....
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