Hints and tips:
...Imo flings ideas, suggests phrases and stagings, waves books and marks up scores, to Ben’s irritation and eventual grudging acceptance....
...The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...The government this week told both sides to return to talks after the NFU called on farming minister Mark Spencer to intervene....
...Several things mark him out as an unlikely master. For one, he’s a southpaw, a left-handed fighter who leads with his right....
...Casting Waitrose as an apocalypse-proof shelter is quite a neat joke, and Atkinson introduces sly references elsewhere to the way in which money is reincarnated in middle-class families — “Mummy’s Mummy’...
...Pope Francis in Portugal: A six-day visit by the leader of the Catholic church to Portugal begins in Lisbon to mark World Youth Day. Five more top stories 1....
...I can’t bear sly mentions of “the blonde” or “my companion”. Still, there are certain subjects where it’s unavoidable....
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...Not to mention he just released a Netflix doc, Sly, on the heels of Schwarzenegger’s (Arnold)....
...Half a dozen portable typewriters tap out Cohen’s verses while projections of shiny red mouths lip-sync the lyrics: a welcome flash of theatrical wit (and a sly dig at the music industry)....
...Barbie — a project many insisted was “unmakeable” — passed the $1bn mark in a matter of weeks. Nothing is unmakeable for Margot....
...Of course, restoring Johnson would mark the Conservative party’s final surrender to intellectual and political frivolity and the odds remain strongly against it....
...They elicit a sly nod, a wink – we’re in on the joke. And then, maybe, people buy them....
...Her own books are marked by a dark, sly humour and sentences that slap on delivery....
...They essentially reduced accountability and participation and they did it in a very sly way. So we came together, built coalitions with the larger environmental movement....
...Lidberg deploys his 11 dancers with sly wit, magicking them on and offstage with a sleight of hand worthy of Mark Morris....
...“Sometimes the world doesn’t make sense,” says sly Olivier. Unlike closer contacts, a kindly stranger who chats Angela up in a bar does spot the dental mishap....
...I created the series to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which began the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality....
...And the London it takes place in have the mark of the real thing, the sense of different versions of the city being forever cheek-by-jowl....
...Zakiya Dalila Harris’s sly and unsettling debut novel The Other Black Girl has been marketed as a cross between Get Out and The Devil Wears Prada....
...Mark Stanley dons the sofa-sized shoulder pads as a king whose changing moods are more muddy than mercurial, churning slowly across a sly, sweaty countenance....
...Opinion: There is now a question mark over whether the US would be willing to go to war with China or Russia, writes Gideon Rachman....
...Cameron’s departure marks the latest setback of his post-political career after he was caught up in the Greensill affair earlier this year....
...Every splendid line delivery — and they are, from casual deceptions to impassioned pleas — is the stuff of performance, quote marks left in....
...Megan Robbins, one of the authors of the paper, describes gossip as a mark of curiosity and sociability. “It’s about exchanging information . . . most gossip is to find out about the world.”...
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