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...The journalist Lynn Barber, in a profile of Billingham for The Observer in 2000, wrote: “I care passionately about the Billinghams, precisely because they are not presented as social problems but as riotously...
...It’s a grim, unyielding watch: savagely funny in places; brutally bleak overall. ★★★☆☆ To November 18, almeida.co.uk...
...Here, the musician teams up with female artists from across the Arab world — such as Sudanese rising star Sulafa Elyas and Syrian jazz vocalist Lynn Adib — as well as Iran....
...There, he observed the grim juxtaposition between dungeons and chapels above them. “It was, to me, an illustration of ideas we have about hell and heaven,” he says....
...Others described the outlook for consumers — especially those on low incomes or mortgage deals that were set to expire — as “tough”, “bleak”, “grim”, “miserable” and “terrible”....
...Even for those people who did find a roof over their head, conditions were often grim, the charity said....
...There is a ray of light for the NHS consultant strikes, which Downing Street will hope, not unreasonably, is also the beginning of the end of the junior doctor dispute....
...The backdrop is grim: funding for UN aid programmes fell in 2023 for the first time in 13 years, even before adjusting for inflation....
...The news from Poland broke like a sharp ray of light through our grim skies....
...In the spring of 2017, celebrities and scientists gathered at the Los Angeles home of legendary television producer Norman Lear and his wife Lynn....
...Frozen was soon the bestselling Blu-ray in US history. Follow the breadcrumb trail and you see how Disney came to stake so much on Disney+....
...“If I go, I’ll have to pay for an X-ray and E£400 for the journey there and back,” she said. “Now I calculate every trip I make.”...
...A 1930s Cel-Ray bottle and bottle opener sitting in a vitrine doesn’t exactly get an aesthete’s juices flowing....
...Law clients put off paying the bills It’s feeling a little grim out there, and law firms are noticing....
...It also offered a much-needed ray of political sunlight at a time when his presidency remains dogged by unshakeably low approval ratings, the weight of managing the western response to the war in Ukraine...
...Ray Barrell: Growth in the UK should be moderately positive in the next year....
...Nobody sane would desire the grim alternatives. martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter...
...While Panahi chose the film’s English title for its echo of Ray Charles’s “Hit the Road Jack”, the original title, he says, “literally means a non-asphalted road....
...The overlaps between a grim birth story in 1965 and another in 2019 tell their own story. But the play’s ambition comes at a cost....
...As philosopher Billy Ray Cyrus once said, there is much to think about. Things remain febrile and fast-changing....
...This one only feels proximate to Del Toro’s Blu-ray collection. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from January 21 and in US cinemas now...
...I’m afraid that this week’s diary is filled with more grim landmarks....
...Following the misadventures of Ray Carney, a furniture salesman with a shady side hustle, actor Dion Graham conjures up the soundscape of the demi-monde and its denizens....
...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....
...by talking to Abdul, a 26-year-old who arrived in Calais six days ago from Iraqi Kurdistan via Turkey and Italy, who says he would have been willing to travel by truck, but “the problem is they have X-rays...
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