Hints and tips:
...I’m sure he came to say goodbye.” Craw, too, later disappeared into the wild....
...“I never thought I’d be involved, but I’m very happy to be part of Codognato’s continuation, and of keeping it in my family....
...“I’m a decorator by trade,” he says. “But I’m weirdly anti-decoration. I hate anything too done-up or perfect – and I always approach rooms furniture-first.”...
...I thought of this short poem by Raymond Carver when I read the statistic about the CEO of UPS being paid 365 times the median employee’s income....
...I’m looking for a four-poster bed. Most antique ones are too small for modern mattresses, so how do you adapt/modernise? Should I just build a new one? Ah, the four-poster....
...Mr Jain’s style was “different from saying ‘I’m a value investor and I only buy stocks from the bottom decile on a price/book ratio’”, Mr Carver added....
...One reader wrote, “Whilst I’m certainly not questioning her palate, Tamlyn has to be taking the mickey out of us with some of her tasting notes in the champagne article.”...
...But I’m not a man to hold a grudge. I settled for the house-made mortadella with reasonably good grace....
...Naked women, he insisted, are in “the grand tradition in western art that I’m part of. A lot of things I think about women have to do with the female body....
...‘I’m not sure what either of those are,’ said Tabitha, ‘but it sounds a definite improvement.’”...
...I interviewed him in the year of Short Cuts, that masterpiece elliptically mosaic’d from Raymond Carver stories....
...I should declare an interest: I helped launch it nine years ago, and travelled all over Italy finding the best artisans to feature there – glassblowers, wood carvers, ceramicists and furniture designers....
...A wondrous, 1,300sq m hardware-drome of catering equipment and DIY tools. The Two Ronnies’ “Fork Handles” vendor on steroids....
...The most recently announced crafts people to be joining the programme are stone carver Michelle de Bruin and artist Jo Crossland....
...Their approach was not universally accepted or beloved: rival designer and stone letter-carver David Kindersley (a one-time student of Eric Gill) submitted a rival design of capital letters....
...Right now, I’m thinking exactly the same thing about the Americans.” The world had moved from boom to bust, G1 to G0. Could the system survive without a hegemon?...
...“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,” a deep, even voice announces at the start of Bill Callahan’s new album, Gold Record....
...I’m not Robert Pattinson. It’s been a long, slow but enjoyable slog. At the moment it feels like everything has come to fruition.”...
...“I don’t think I’m alone in being surprised,” he said, noting that the government did not typically oppose calls for a stay when contract decisions are disputed....
...And Mad Men has been compared to American writers John Cheever and Raymond Carver....
...The quadriplegic wears a T-shirt declaring “I’m in it for the parking”....
...The duck is specified on the menu as “Creedy Carver”. It’s the name of the company that supplies high-grade poultry....
...Critics have likened her to a female Raymond Carver, and there’s some truth to that....
...Although the deal was not a traditional acquisition, it still counted on M&A league tables....
...Carver is Unilever’s 12th, and largest acquisition, since the start of 2015, in line with Mr Polman’s favoured policy of eschewing big M&A for small and medium-size bolt-ons....
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