Hints and tips:
...As Mark Borkowski, a public relations expert, says: “When something is very poor, word of mouth travels fast, quicker than when something is good.”...
...Lucy Kirkwood’s excellent script and lyrics bristle with wit, shaking up Dahl’s trademark mix of the mischievous and the macabre....
...The Bacon, once in the collection of author Roald Dahl, was reportedly sold last week by the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange, also believed to be the seller of Frank Auerbach’s “Head of EOW II” (1964), which...
...Teaching a lesson can’t be the mark of a good book....
...In 1960, he photographed Tāq Kasrā from the air, replicating a shot that Roald Dahl had taken 20 years before, while piloting solo across the desert during the second world war....
...Who succeeded Sir Mark Sedwill as cabinet secretary in 2020? What’s missing from this chronological list from 1885 to 1960: the Congo Free State, ——, the Republic of Congo?...
...Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, director-general of DigitalEurope, urged for there to be a delay, saying “we seem to be hurtling through the legislative process like a runaway train”....
...Mark C O’Flaherty gets the grand tour in this week’s issue, while Jake Curtis takes the shots....
...Netflix’s acquisition of the company, which is owned by Dahl’s family and employees, marks a considerable deepening of its existing links with his estate....
...A regime that puts owners on the hook for these costs would presumably mark the end of private equity, which may well be Warren’s objective....
...Dahl co-led Sidley Austin’s private equity practice and Iwasko was co-head of the firm’s European corporate and private equity group....
...It was named to mark the centenary of the author’s birth and flowers in an apt shade of peach-apricot, recalling the giant peach in Dahl’s famous story....
...Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, director-general of DigitalEurope, a tech lobbying group, said: “We are concerned that attempts to make data sharing mandatory could undermine innovation....
...These include a deal with Rococo Chocolates for themed confectionery to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2016....
...Dahl died before such a machine was within the realm of possibility. Today it no longer seems such a crazy idea....
...But we’re also the country of Shakespeare, Austen and Dahl. Our greatest export to the world is our language. Our greatest asset is the free exchange of ideas and debate....
...Spy Toys , by Mark Powers, Bloomsbury, RRP£5.99, 224 pages...
...Where this version has the edge (apart from a vastly bigger budget) is in the presence of Spielberg’s NBF Mark Rylance as the BFG; Rylance’s motion-captured performance is warm, twinkly, crinkly, delightful...
...So the city is a dollhouse even before we see the mammoth hand of the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) reach out to rescue scrappy orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill)....
...Other populist parties rejoiced, including Kristian Thulesen Dahl, head of the anti-immigration Danish People’s party, and Mr Wilders, who called for a “Nexit” in the Netherlands....
...of Roald Dahl’s classic The BFG....
...In Denmark, Kristian Thulesen Dahl, head of the anti-immigration Danish People’s party, also called for a plebiscite....
...Roald Dahl served as a spy from Washington. Peter Matthiessen joined the CIA out of Yale. The link between authorship and espionage is “unsurprising”, the Economist says....
...But if they enter a centre-right coalition, it would mark the third Nordic country to have a populist party in government after Norway and Finland....
...Whatever other failings it has, ENO’s new production marks a clinching achievement for the company’s outgoing music director, Edward Gardner, his orchestra and chorus, the latter sounding as strong as they...
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