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...Joyce stayed in the upper chamber, modestly appointed with whitewashed stone walls, bare wooden floors, a naked table with two chairs and a hammock in the corner....
...For at least 15 years Joyce DiDonato has been one of a handful superlative singers equally at ease in comedy and tragedy, and equally eloquent in four languages....
...As its title indicates, Joyce’s lament is also a call to remember. There is no need for us to romanticise a world where near-unimaginable toil and suffering were woven into the fabric of daily life....
...She is played by Maggie Smith, bringing a gritty severity to a role that could merely have been ingratiatingly indomitable....
...Now they are branching out into a series of writing classes, held in Marrakech and each featuring a star writer who joins for two of the six days: the 2024 line-up includes Monica Ali, Maggie O’Farrell and...
...Which 1992 film starred Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith? Poly Styrene was the lead singer of which punk band?...
...As with Sunset Boulevard, just opened in London, fame and its price colour Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, albeit handled in a very different style....
...“The best thing I can do under these circumstances is to bring forward my retirement,” Joyce said in a statement....
...Qantas posted its first annual profit since the onset of Covid-19, as long-serving chief executive Alan Joyce signed off his tenure with a financial recovery....
...“This is a classic Joyce move: pretend to take responsibility while pocketing obscene amounts of money,” he said in a statement. Qantas would not comment on whether Joyce’s pay would be reviewed....
...Luka Ivan Jukic’s review of Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World is surely right that there is no need to romanticise the world of “near-unimaginable toil and suffering...
...Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato has substantial experience in the role of Sister Helen, as does bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, who sings De Rocher....
...“If you look at James Joyce you see a very pure artist,” she says. “You can deduce a kind of a political leaning or sympathy in Joyce, but it’s not explicit . . . I don’t really like polemics.”...
...The Princess is Polynesian rather than French; Melanie-Joyce Bermudez plays her as sweet, mirthful and, when the situation commands it, imposing....
...(Age of Invention) — James Joyce’s errors (London Review of Books, metered paywall) — Three-inch worm pulled ‘alive and wriggling’ from woman’s brain (Telegraph)...
...Finally, a brief mention for Tess Gerritsen’s engaging The Spy Coast (Bantam £20/Thomas & Mercer $28.99). Maggie Bird is a retired operative for (what else?)...
...After the success of Old Wow in 2020, where he sang about a rush of encounters in the wild, he composed music for the film of Rachel Joyce’s book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, in which he also starred...
...They will at least do so from a position of financial strength — with Qantas’s balance sheet bolstered by debt reduction and cost-cutting under Joyce — and in a domestic market where it still commands a...
...Hudson was instrumental in recent moves by the airline to overhaul its fleet and to invest A$200mn (US$130mn) in dealing with services issues....
...Joyce, who has led Qantas for 15 years, hoped to bow out on a high after unveiling a record annual profit last month....
...Investors also criticised the board for allowing Joyce to sell A$17mn worth of Qantas shares weeks before the consumer watchdog’s legal action was launched....
...Joyce was due to retire in 2020 but agreed to stay on to lead the business through the pandemic....
...My heart goes out to his family, particularly Maggie, Calum and Anna, whom he loved so dearly. “Alistair lived a life devoted to public service....
...Maggie Coblentz was host this time, fresh from her field excursion in Lanzarote with a deep tan and a lengthened gaze....
...It’s hard to imagine a happier home for the adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s prizewinning novel Hamnet than Stratford, the town still reverberating with the lives it explores, those of Shakespeare and his...
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